2000 years ago a cult swept through Roman Empire and replaced religious freedom with a single faith that preached freedom, taught to read and write, inspired charitable lifestyle. Empire was founded on slavery those who joined them were freed. They were taught reading and writing and they were able to get jobs that ranked highly in the system.
In this world we can see a similarity with programmers -- they can get the well paid jobs and see the world with an insight into its rules and systems.
Monday, 3 December 2007
Nondemocracy
Many democracies have become frail just as they were when the structure of democracy was questioned 100 years ago. They let in to the highest level of power people who are insane, and addicted. Many of these liberal democracies wane when a president brings in a hardline policy and begins to exclude parties from the parliament, and extending the powers and duration of the presidency. Finally perhaps the PR systems that manipulate the country. End of democracy. While the title carries on it becomes as meaningless in the west as in the old communist world.
Sunday, 2 December 2007
On music
The traditional structure of music involves influences/composer/players/audience. This has changed somewhat but the big change and a popular new model based on p2p and crowdsourcing and would really charge what the creative commons would enable - realtime collaboration and jamming and play. Such a technology does not exist yet in the zeitgeist. However we are close.
(Open Source mod based music is certainly on the cards here, and another would be the p4p/p2p networked music collaboration, so that whatever you do would create music in your personal music world and could also contribute for influences to other places, instead of just listening to music people would collaborate - the move from passive to interactive, for this imaginary platform you could do searches based on samples and doewnload samples and arrangements up to whole songs.)
When I look back there is a sort of transcendence has come as a culmination of a change through time which has shortened the timeframe of a style of music, and created dozens of styles of acoustic music and hundreds of styles of electronic music.
I developed a sense of search for music which was shared by many of my fellows, that intended to escape the system of locking yourself into a particular style, we found that there were styles that attempted to exit many conventions of music - like rhythm in ambient. This way it was not necessary to keep looking for the new new music. We also found styles which used many different styles as the source of influence.
(Open Source mod based music is certainly on the cards here, and another would be the p4p/p2p networked music collaboration, so that whatever you do would create music in your personal music world and could also contribute for influences to other places, instead of just listening to music people would collaborate - the move from passive to interactive, for this imaginary platform you could do searches based on samples and doewnload samples and arrangements up to whole songs.)
When I look back there is a sort of transcendence has come as a culmination of a change through time which has shortened the timeframe of a style of music, and created dozens of styles of acoustic music and hundreds of styles of electronic music.
I developed a sense of search for music which was shared by many of my fellows, that intended to escape the system of locking yourself into a particular style, we found that there were styles that attempted to exit many conventions of music - like rhythm in ambient. This way it was not necessary to keep looking for the new new music. We also found styles which used many different styles as the source of influence.
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