https://www.purposivedrift.net/2007/09/05/an_unprecedente/ Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 https://www.purposivedrift.net/2007/09/05/an_unprecedente/#comment-25 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:01:51 +0000 http://drift.allseeing-i.com/2007/09/05/an_unprecedente/#comment-25 word, you know about cybersyn. That was cool stuff. I blogged that a few months ago when it turned up surfing. http://blog.myspace.com/bishopdante
CIA rather sinister huh.
It’s pretty simple, actually. Marx was right that capitalism is not exactly… smart, or particularly flexible. Or even close to fair. Problem was the means of production having to be mass means of production in a huge expensive chunk. Big machines big companies. These days with a bit of reasonably priced CNC outsourcing you can get pretty much anything done from your desktop about as cheap as anybody else. No elitist access to means of production, or huge setup costs.
That’s the difference between digital and traditional plate based mass produced print. It opens up all sorts of new opportunities for the efficient manufacture of just about everything, and you don’t have to commit 10,000 consumers to being spammed with your bogus stuff.
That was the problem with cybersyn, it was information only networking. No robotics, so the factories were still traditinal industrial. A step in the right direction, but by no means the end product. The CIA and the ’70s oil boys won’t be stopping silicon. Not really, no.

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