I saw an IPAD. Once again confirmed, there really is no “progress” anymore, just different combinations of the same old crap, over and over again, to give the impression that it is “something new” and “cool” and worthwhile, etc, so everyone buys into it, it is defined as “new and better” from the outset, not from what it actually “does”. The software is the same old PC software that has been perfected over 20 years ago, no real high class UNIX workstation software, the touch is way worse than the “mouse”, but the mouse is “out of style now”, etc.
What it really shows is that what is really important is to create a new arena where corporations can “compete” which means, disperse money and resources and man years and energy simply to waste time, to not produce anything, to just see who is stronger and the winner, etc. Nothing constructive here, nothing accumulative here (all these products are based on being flashy, a lot of gimmicks, a lot of “eye candy”, a lot of “games” (as in fun and games since we no longer have anything serious to do anymore, like building Rockets and Skyscrapers) just like candy to little children, and that is the level of worth).
We need to build Skyscrapers, Cars, Trains and High Speed Trains, BUSES, Houses, Atom power plants, Atom smashers and Particle Accelerators, Rockets, etc. All real things, things you can touch, and we need to substitute the Man Brain with a decent Machine that isn’t looking for fights (as in competition and innovation (change for change’s sake, just to see who wins the next fight, as if people are always enemies and they are all proud of their subjectivity, what pukes, what craps, kill all people!)).
After so many decades of “Innovation” and “Science and Research” and all, what has been achieved is the pukey IPAD, incredible, and Economic Collapses, Poverty, Accumulation of cash in always the same Rich Hands, and all. What an incredibly low “productivity” society, what a trashy civilization, a failed civilization from the outset.
From:
kunstler.com/blog/2011/08/histor … apist.html
“Get serious about reorganizing agriculture on a smaller, finer, more local scale. Believe me, there will be plenty of jobs.”
Also, JHK, there won’t be “plenty of work”, by going back to the Stone Age, there will be real Mass poverty and nothing to do just like rural India and China (that is why they prefer the 18th century sweatshop factories and industry instead of the “fruits of the land”).
Idle, Joblessness, Free Time is the real story of this Economic System thanks to the Technological Economy creating Free Wealth all by itself: but instead of using the wealth to build Skyscrapers and colonize the Solar System, we use it to beat each other up as in “competition” and to build pukey IPADS and such.