Sunday’s Deflections
Reading about the case against Backpage in Wired Magazine, the author mentions the irony of the CDA of 1995 and how the Supreme Court diasectred it and left a loop hole. Thus, playing it back to Congress to fix.
That would be fine if our system of government could keep up with changes in our world, but it cannot. Basically, because it is designed to be slow changing, whereas, business and in particular the area of information technologies, are driven to move faster and faster by design.
It is a gap that continues to tear the society and the world apart to leave a world much like the universe of random connectedness. The human scientific achievements over the last few hundred years has given us the ability to abstract information of how the world works and manipulate that information to change our world. Where does this end? According to our best understanding of universal ”laws”, the universe is always moving towards random distribution of everything in it. Entropy which is a measure of a system’s randomness or steady-state. I just picture dropping some blue dye into a glass of water. The more it spreads the more entropy. This is also the primary laws of themaldynamics. Anything that humans do, to organize things, only creates more disorganization somewhere else oẗ side of the system. I am not sure where the line of system can be drawn but let’s just say we have impacted the Earth’s climate system by burning fossil fuels for a couple thousand years.
And every CPU that moves information on the internet requires excess heat to do a negation. What the Theory of Information tells me is that we only see a part of the picture and it is bigger than we think. That there is a level of knowledge that some humans learn that is trying to come to light to stop the disorganization that technology has helped along; connecting billions of humans and machines together.