Sunday, June 19, 2005

 

Fleeting moment of optimism

We are creating the tools we need to take the future back from those who would enslave us. We _are_ doing it. Its a slow process, painfully slow, such that progress is barely perceptable, yet the progress is there and things are happening. More and more code is being realeased in GPL and open source formats thus building up the codebase, the building blocks if you will, for the future. The same thing is happening now with writing and other information resources with new licesnces like the creative commons. Its a beautiful thing that CC, and the GPL, how virally they cuase derived works to enjoy the same freedoms. The same thing will happen with the home fabbers that will inevitably find a nook in every home to manufacture simple housewares, machines and whatnot required for every day living. Of course the most popular designs for objects to be produced by the fabbers will be licensed under a creative commons scheme.

The children of today, those little fragile people who we dont give enough credit, those two and three year olds of 2005, well we're finally developing the tools THEY will need to build a real future and escape this bullshit that the older generation is struggling against. We'll cast off the ineffeciencies of old style command and control capitalism and usher in something magical, well magical seeming, for when it all finally comes together it will feel like magic and the hand of God at work. God working through us, through human cooperation. We've a long way to go and plenty of opportunity to fuck it all up, but its the direction that things are now going and its a good direction to go in. The future must be an open one if we are going to survive on this planet, and I have this sneaking feeling that it will just all fall into place and work out in the best way.

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