cruel to be kind

We could be heroes. Or profoundly bored. Everybody smokes pot now but still there is no world peace. Only one thing is certain: birth and death. Bummer.

Chris Locke and I talk about various aspects:

• of course Cluetrain and his presentation “mortality & sense of humor“
• why he is bored with conferences but not with reboot
• experiences with trips to Europe and Tokyo
• how artificial intelligence was the darling of the 80s
• and the internet was also coming out of the military academic industrial complex but virtual worlds seem to originate not from there
• the famous Deep-fried Mars Bar
• we may not be as free thinking as we though; the inheriting of mindsets which are not as squeaky clean as some would like to be
• his dismay about people blogging about blogging
• why he wanted commerce involved in the net so they would sign up everybody to be on the net
• now they are voluntary slaves – do we really ask at the end of our life if we have been a good consumer?
• follow paths others have not been at
• and how all of this hopefully will lead up to a book some day: Mystic Bourgeoisie.

Download MP3 (50 min, 30 MB)

Visit his profile on the reboot page or visit his blog.

I am now going to listen to Bowie again. ;)

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