Only global revolution can begin the process of changing the hideous path we are all currently on. My current thinking is that Marx's ideas needed a fully internet covered planet before they could have a prayer of being realized. One might say that not only does capitalism contain the seeds of its own destruction (via unlimited growth), but also of its own replacement (via a computer networked planet).
On a somewhat related note, who wants to help me start a hippie commune in a very well-known Florida college town with an astronomical number of beautiful women of every nationality? They actually know who I am because I'm the one guy who always happens to be openly flirting with them in public spaces. I really have that Silicon Valley CEO kind of a vibe in a place that is literally overflowing with the "same old fratty dude" everywhere you look!
I want to do what Miller Puckette did, but on the web.
It's because of previous creativity such as his that I continue to work on a new kind of platform [1]. I can only assume that creatives (especially musically inclined ones) will take the lead in making my thing become our thing.
When I talk to people about my love for the movie Office Space (and Mike Judge), they always tell me about Idiocracy. I still haven't seen it, but I feel like this kind of thing would have a place in that movie (or perhaps even Beavis and Butthead).
I just wonder what Hank Hill would say about this "free water" concept. Do you think Hank might support a "free propane" concept? I doubt Hank would think that "free propane accessories" would work very well. Hmmm...
I've noticed a pattern with the different groups of people who are trying to go beyond the Standard Model. One group says that there is a need to "quantize gravity" while the other says the need is to "gravitationalize quanta." The former do not tend to have very much experience with GR (or differential geometry) while the latter do.
I say we need to begin with relativity, and thoroughly understand it before trying to make quantum theory do more than it was designed to do.
Not many people realize that Dirac was a string theorist before string theory became a thing [1]!
[1] See especially: "Quantum Theory of Localizable Dynamical Systems" (Dirac, 1948).
While it's a simple argument I always liked what one of my quantum mechanics professors said about quantizing gravity. That certainly you can go ahead and do so but in order for it to apply to any of the gravitational interactions we see around us we arrive at energy levels that are smaller than a Planck length. So it could be true. But it's not measurably true.
Thanks for that (and no thanks for this)! You won't find too many this's (or deeply nested properties of any kind) in my own decade+ long adventure with JavaScript.
Interesting times, indeed!