“Perhaps its wishful thinking from a lazy boy like me, but it seems there is a tacit laziness lying behind the drive to innovation. A realization that a bit of hard work up front, developing a better process, can save work in the end. Of all innovators Soros is perhaps the most upfront about this drive, Eno in his polite English manner steps around the issue, letting it lie obvious but never clearly spoken. Laziness becomes economy, but the meaning is the same. And it points us to the nasty little secret of the Protestant work ethic supposedly underlying capitalism (as if that even exists). It is not hard work that drives success, it is reproduction. The industrialist built machines to force the reproduction, and now its all about brands and algorithms (abstract machines if you will).”
William Blaze
(Abe Burmeister aka William Blaze is a nomadic artist, writer and designer living on the frontiers of information)