Don't forget that the Aztecs were the people of the sun. We Mexicans want you to keep your heart beating and your luminous and beautiful soul shinning for many more years. We need you, man...We think that its a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
I had a large following on social media. I put out market forecasts which requires years of study to put something out with integrity. There was no desire for interaction or to establish community or open line of communication. It was about what I could offer them. Most of my followers were anonymous. Fake names… no desire to give up their anonymity. “Stockshitter, Splinterface” and other creative names. Trolls were prolific.
Often I’d get messages asking for information. Never a thank you. Never an introduction. “Hi my name is Blake, I really enjoy your work. I’d like to ask you a question.” NEVER. If I gave them the information, they’d take it and disappear. One even took the techniques and monetized it.
Zero awareness that the person they were interacting was a real person, with feelings, empathy, intellectual curiosity, work ethic. It’s the same as not holding a door for a person to walk through. Or not acknowledging a good deed with a thank you or a smile. People now take all the information floating around for granted. Want to build a house? Free. Learn to play jazz? Knit? Advanced calculus? That might come to a hard stop soon. Something about anonymity that makes people lazy and inconsiderate. Here goes the big problem with our future global community.
Virus’s and hacking. More unfriendly's incoming
35 years ago, I listened to a speaker forecast the coming of the great internet revolution. A global community. Friends in all nations and the end of war. Kumbaya. Not a day went by that I had to block ½ dozen scam accounts. Pictures of pretty girls. What did they want? My credit card. When asked how virus’s and hacking would be prevented, the speakers, said, “We will figure it out” It hasn't been figured out. Not by any of the social media billionaires either.
35 years later and I’m not hearing much Kumbaya, or seeing solutions to the hacking problem, which grows endlessly. Every 39 seconds a hack occurs in the USA.
I also think the internet contributes greatly to the epidemic of stress-related illnesses. When someone expresses faith that a solution to hacking must be near, I bring up the Navy’s top-of-the-line, nuclear capable F-35 jet fighter.
Over the past 17 years, the Navy has spent billions of dollars on cybersecurity. Yet the F-35 system still contains “thousands” of cyber “penetration points.”So if the F-35 is still vulnerable to cyber sabotage, what makes anyone think a fix for hacking is coming for civilian businesses or consumers?
Here is the heart of the problem. Every government spends mountains of money to hire genius-level cyberwarriors, and trains them to be unbeatable. Surprise! The warriors are not stupid. They know they can take the training that is stored in their heads, walk away from their civil service salaries, go criminal, and rake in millions. So face it.
As long as governments hate each other, they will continue creating these Professor Moriarty mastermind criminals. The problem is simply not solvable, which is why it keeps growing. And now artificial intelligence (AI) has come on the scene. Thousands of Moriartys using AI equals what? I think AI is 99% certain to make everyone scared spitless of the internet, and this will cause the internet to decay into a global ghost town.
Computers themselves will continue in use. But electronic offsite connections will not be, for a time, couriers or snail mail like we did in the 90’s.
I think in a few years or less, the fantasy of everyone being connected to everyone else will be ridiculed. The internet will be replaced by a “splinternet,” by which I mean a quality-based spectrum of services and security. At the bottom of the spectrum will be what we already have — a free cesspool infested with all manner of crime, complexity, frustration, fear, wasted time, wasted money, harassment and heartbreak. No sane person will want his or her loved ones anywhere near this electronic sewer
Life will slow down greatly. We will no longer be slaves at the beck and call of our electronics. I look forward to it.
The other piece of good news. It will be the end of free streaming downloads for music. Musicians will be able to make money again. WRiters will print their books on real paper, and the sneaker stores that replaced the bookstores could be replaced again with book stores. The 2nd coming of the LORD....Tower Records. Jeff Bezos lives happily ever after on planet Mars.
On the other hand, one can simply ignore it. Those that choose to do so, can still interact with live people. Personally, I don't need to connect with dozens, let alone hundreds of people. I'm sure others think differently. When drum machines arrived and every studio and drummer bought one, I just kept playing with the tools at hand and always worked. If I had bought a drum machine, perhaps I could have worked more, earned more money, and enjoyed it less. As long as I have choices, I'll be ok.
I think the danger lies in the choices that may be available. As yet, we don't know what they will be. I have a basic distrust of corporations and their machinations.
Dear Bret,
Don't forget that the Aztecs were the people of the sun. We Mexicans want you to keep your heart beating and your luminous and beautiful soul shinning for many more years. We need you, man...We think that its a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Feel better soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgyCfK8_CmU
Greetings from Mexico City
Tulio
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I had a large following on social media. I put out market forecasts which requires years of study to put something out with integrity. There was no desire for interaction or to establish community or open line of communication. It was about what I could offer them. Most of my followers were anonymous. Fake names… no desire to give up their anonymity. “Stockshitter, Splinterface” and other creative names. Trolls were prolific.
Often I’d get messages asking for information. Never a thank you. Never an introduction. “Hi my name is Blake, I really enjoy your work. I’d like to ask you a question.” NEVER. If I gave them the information, they’d take it and disappear. One even took the techniques and monetized it.
Zero awareness that the person they were interacting was a real person, with feelings, empathy, intellectual curiosity, work ethic. It’s the same as not holding a door for a person to walk through. Or not acknowledging a good deed with a thank you or a smile. People now take all the information floating around for granted. Want to build a house? Free. Learn to play jazz? Knit? Advanced calculus? That might come to a hard stop soon. Something about anonymity that makes people lazy and inconsiderate. Here goes the big problem with our future global community.
Virus’s and hacking. More unfriendly's incoming
35 years ago, I listened to a speaker forecast the coming of the great internet revolution. A global community. Friends in all nations and the end of war. Kumbaya. Not a day went by that I had to block ½ dozen scam accounts. Pictures of pretty girls. What did they want? My credit card. When asked how virus’s and hacking would be prevented, the speakers, said, “We will figure it out” It hasn't been figured out. Not by any of the social media billionaires either.
35 years later and I’m not hearing much Kumbaya, or seeing solutions to the hacking problem, which grows endlessly. Every 39 seconds a hack occurs in the USA.
I also think the internet contributes greatly to the epidemic of stress-related illnesses. When someone expresses faith that a solution to hacking must be near, I bring up the Navy’s top-of-the-line, nuclear capable F-35 jet fighter.
Over the past 17 years, the Navy has spent billions of dollars on cybersecurity. Yet the F-35 system still contains “thousands” of cyber “penetration points.”So if the F-35 is still vulnerable to cyber sabotage, what makes anyone think a fix for hacking is coming for civilian businesses or consumers?
Here is the heart of the problem. Every government spends mountains of money to hire genius-level cyberwarriors, and trains them to be unbeatable. Surprise! The warriors are not stupid. They know they can take the training that is stored in their heads, walk away from their civil service salaries, go criminal, and rake in millions. So face it.
As long as governments hate each other, they will continue creating these Professor Moriarty mastermind criminals. The problem is simply not solvable, which is why it keeps growing. And now artificial intelligence (AI) has come on the scene. Thousands of Moriartys using AI equals what? I think AI is 99% certain to make everyone scared spitless of the internet, and this will cause the internet to decay into a global ghost town.
Computers themselves will continue in use. But electronic offsite connections will not be, for a time, couriers or snail mail like we did in the 90’s.
I think in a few years or less, the fantasy of everyone being connected to everyone else will be ridiculed. The internet will be replaced by a “splinternet,” by which I mean a quality-based spectrum of services and security. At the bottom of the spectrum will be what we already have — a free cesspool infested with all manner of crime, complexity, frustration, fear, wasted time, wasted money, harassment and heartbreak. No sane person will want his or her loved ones anywhere near this electronic sewer
Life will slow down greatly. We will no longer be slaves at the beck and call of our electronics. I look forward to it.
David B. - Contermporary Nostradamus
The other piece of good news. It will be the end of free streaming downloads for music. Musicians will be able to make money again. WRiters will print their books on real paper, and the sneaker stores that replaced the bookstores could be replaced again with book stores. The 2nd coming of the LORD....Tower Records. Jeff Bezos lives happily ever after on planet Mars.
On the other hand, one can simply ignore it. Those that choose to do so, can still interact with live people. Personally, I don't need to connect with dozens, let alone hundreds of people. I'm sure others think differently. When drum machines arrived and every studio and drummer bought one, I just kept playing with the tools at hand and always worked. If I had bought a drum machine, perhaps I could have worked more, earned more money, and enjoyed it less. As long as I have choices, I'll be ok.
Your last sentence says it all.
I think the danger lies in the choices that may be available. As yet, we don't know what they will be. I have a basic distrust of corporations and their machinations.
Yes, they suck.
I remember cave art. Best years of my life 🐸