Quote from: TPTB_need_war on May 07, 2015, 04:45:22 AM

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.

To some extent this can be a symptom of the peak in collectivism, because for example we have (highly unprofitable!) behemoths such as Facebook which are subsidized by the banksters (the bankster seed funding, controlled media, IPO, etc which of course the bankster cashed out profitably while leaving their clients holding the bag) so they can give away everything for free and thus a large swath of humanity is addicted and uninterested in exploring diversity. This swath of humanity is not motivated because they too are subsidized by the system and thus have no need to prioritize being realistic about how they use their time profitably. I am seeing this up close with my new social media site. It is very difficult to find a feature set that entices users away from "just give me your Skype, I don't want to be hassled with a new site".

More generally and abstractly what is happening is that we are becoming more specialized and thus the trend to maximum division-of-labor is intact. The problem with the maximum division-of-labor is that in the Theory of the Firm, this gives the corporation all the control and profits because the various specialists can't sell their skills independently into the final market and have to be bundled by the corporation into a final product.

What I am trying to do with my social network is share the revenue with the users and creators of the content and perhaps apps in the future. In other words, create an ecosystem instead of just a dumped down clientèle of zombies.

We need to radically upend the structure of the internet and the way we are interacting with it. This is an incredibly ambitious wall to climb and I was sick with Multiple Sclerosis for the past several years and had fallen away from my former high productivity.

Just now I am starting to get my mojo back and getting back up to my level of high productivity.

But I am only one person. Collaboration is nice but also can be a timesink to get coordinated. Breaking through with an ecosystem is the high economy-of-scale paradigm for synergistic collaborations, i.e. someone has to burn the path and lead.

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

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.

Yeah but for as long as the safe haven of USA is still standing then won't that provide a some buffer against total collapse? The wealthy Europeans can move their capital out to the USA. It is when the USA turns down hard, that the world will really be chaotic.

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

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 ;-)

I still have a lot of ideas for crypto-currency I'd like to implement. Again I am only 1 person and at the moment I am in need of fixing my finances which were destroyed by the illness. So I had to timeout from crypto-currency to go launch a social network (put the Android app on the backburner because I have less experience on Android and trying to choose the more sure project, but now I am wondering if I made a mistake Huh

).

If I could raise enough money to work full-time on crypto-currency, that would be ideal, but I sort of detest the idea of making promises and raising money for promises.

Also because of the politics of altcoins and investments, I had said I would never announce affiliate with an altcoin publicly. Also I was thinking any anonymous coin should most ideally have an anonymous developer because you want that developer to still be around long-term (not targeted for abuse by the powers-that-be). But that may or may not be realistic.

Any thoughts?

Many of us seem to be increasingly content with being spoon-fed and unwittingly institutionalized - a comforting cotton-wool return to infancy in effect. It's ironic that what was once promised to be an infinite choice of options in the marketplace has actually been directed into a seemingly amiable authoritarian guiding hand towards consumer decisions; an illusion of choice.

So, with your new social media site you are striving to encourage users to be less passive and more creatively interactive, and I guess enjoy an ultimately more rewarding experience bottom up rather than top down, yes?

I appreciate the financial imperative of fixing finances before resuming the crypto project. I'd like to think that enough people understand that an effective anonymous crypto so much needs to happen that they (a proportion at least of the, was it 60k followers on here?) would crowd-fund you even without any promises. I can see that even if you developed one anonymously, and if such a crypto were to appear and disrupt the best laid plans of the-powers-that-be, you would be high on the list of suspects. A tricky one. But who will achieve the right altcoin in time for the late 2017(?) USA down turn if you don't? A collaboration appeared tantalizingly close for a while; is that still remotely achievable, or out of the question? I can understand the urgency of non-compromise. It would be kind of elegant if Kim Dotcom could embrace a project like this, and keep hands-off?