Assange writes some pretty insightful things. I was pretty struck by (in a Long Now way) this quote:
“The internet is self destructing paper. A place where anything written is soon destroyed by rapacious competition and the only preservation is to forever copy writing from sheet to sheet faster than they can burn.
If it’s worth writing, it’s worth keeping. If it can be kept, it might be worth writing. Would your store your brain in a startup company’s vat? If you store your writing on a 3rd party site like blogger, livejournal or even on your own site, but in the complex format used by blog/wiki software de jour you will lose it forever as soon as hypersonic wings of internet labor flows direct people’s energies elsewhere. For most information published on the internet, perhaps that is not a moment too soon, but how can the muse of originality soar when immolating transience brushes every feather?”
Sorry to see this so heavily downvoted. Thanks—this made for interesting reading and watching.
If you haven’t checked out the archive of iq.org it’s also a rather interesting blog :)
re: formatting… you don’t happen to use Ubuntu/Chrome, do you?
Assange writes some pretty insightful things. I was pretty struck by (in a Long Now way) this quote:
--Julian Assange, “Tue 05 Dec 2006 : Self destructing paper”
(Informed some of my own thoughts, anyway.)
That’s some really cool writing the guy’s got..