Quote from: THX 1138 on May 06, 2015, 02:48:35 PM

TPTB, I didn't mean to give the impression that I simply believe Knowledge Age = coding logic; I should have expanded. I get your point about ...eliminating the repetitive drudgery so humans can focus on what they do best, which is creativity.... Of course, it seems increasingly (to me at least) that very few creatives can earn enough (or often anything) to live on, except the most talented ones. For instance, over decades I have had to move from practicing photography with chemicals to digital; from recording music in analogue to digital; I accept that. Even if successful, I understand that no-one can rest on the laurels of their career skills and feel an entitlement to earn from them for a working lifetime. As with nature as a whole, there is a need to constantly adapt. However, it seems like the city walls are getting smaller and smaller with more and more people locked out. You and the other mavericks - are clearly gifted in what you do and stand a much better chance of economic survival in the years to come than many others, even though they are doing their damnedest to accommodate to the new normal. True, you might say, too bad, you're not good enough. Nature is frequently cruel, if you'll forgive the pathetic fallacy. On the macro level there is nothing to be gained in being sentimental, but on the micro, personal level this coming disruption will cause great distress for possibly billions. We will either rise up against totalitarianism in time, or we won't.

As for ...the worst of what is coming won't kick in until after 2016... do you think this is still the case with the UK and Europe? I kind of got the impression that America would be going through what we will around 18 months afterwards.

It is reassuring that you assert, ...The decentralized network can't be stopped by the centralized morass.... The skills to circumvent the grip of the one-world NWO will need to become available to more than just the technically savvy few people like me in other words. I'm pursuing practical solutions for those of us who aren't likely to be in the Knowledge Age elite.

In saying ,...if someone created something that was sufficiently innovative and generated significant market excitement... are you suggesting that you are not necessarily still involved in developing an anonymous crypto? Hope not ;-)

Erdogan, thanks for your interesting points over short-lived internet cut-off and satellite phones.

It's in the nature of a state-controlled monetary system to have hyper-fast economic growth. IMO this is unnatural and makes people unhappy and literally unhealthy. And this includes the programming whiz kids who are in such demand in this economy. You have to wonder how much of life they give up to "achieve" what they have. But I noticed such people tend to come out of the woodwork in the performance-enhancement-drugged modern economy.

Essentially, when the state and its banking allies create so much money and debt (to benefit the elites, mainly), these have to be invested in something that eventually produces goods and services that people will buy, or the system would collapse. All the nooks and crannies of the system tend to develop ways to incentivize people to be productive and innovative above all other goals of life. That's why you see so much quick-buck mentality, fast-food culture, time poverty, mental stress, environmental pollution, etc.