Cold Constructs Blog

It’s common knowledge that in a large group of people, most are idiots. Herd behavior takes over and suddenly everyone turns stupid. It is also true that power corrupts. Put the two together and you have the structure of a business - a large group of people and one powerful person at the top. Now, do you think that this entity should be granted the same rights as you and me? This stupid, corrupt, and powerful entity?

Corporations have a lot of money, and since our government runs on money, corporations have proven to be very influential indeed. This needs to stop.

For-profit businesses should not be allowed to fund any government campaign. Their interests are strictly monetary, this much is obvious, so of course they’re going to get anyone in power that will give them the market edge. They should not be able to set up a non-profit arm and fund campaigners that way either. Every corporation, no matter who is in it, should be examined thoroughly to make sure they have no connections to any businesses.

This is only the beginning of the kind of reform business law needs. I’ll keep editing this post with more suggestions, but I need this up now for the above post.

I’m having trouble finding the words to describe the significance of this thing… the ’self-replicating rapid prototyper’. It’s a 3D printer, but it’s available for free and it’s open source, completely. I wouldn’t have to buy dishes or silverware, I’d buy the raw material (or even grow it myself), design them myself, and have it built in my own home. Or a new mouse (you will eventually be able to solder circuitry with it). At the end he says, “If these machines take off, it will give individual people the chance to do this themselves, and we are talking about making a lot of our consumer goods. The effect this has on industry and society could be dramatic.” That’s putting it lightly.

I believe I am living in the most interesting of times. It’s a time when tyrannies are turning into democracies and democracies are turning into tyrannies, when everyone has a voice everyone else can hear clearly, when old business models are failing, but more incredibly, this is a time when old systems of control and filtration are running into walls - walls built by the masses themselves. Suddenly the power to communicate instantly at any time with hundreds of millions of people who are spread across the world, have fallen into the hands of me and you, the “common people,” and there’s no one that can stop us or even censor us. Computers have given us the tools to skip the middlemen, and it’s really pissing them off. They cower in fear of having to change, having to use their creative energies to adapt to their new surroundings… hell, they thought that they were the surroundings. They thought they didn’t have to change - things adapted to them.

Power is being decentralized - not just politcal or military power, but the actual energy we use to power our homes. Networks are the new hierarchies. People are creating things and letting others have it, either as-is or even to remix and reuse for other purposes.

As GHR puts it: “…technology is empowering the little guy. That seems to be the theme of the 21st Century.”

I’ve heard a lot of talk about sending out old machines to the developing nations. Biggest load of shit, ever. As if the developing world wanted shitty equipment. That’s blatant ignorance. If you were just starting to get your hands dirty in a new scientific field, would you want to start out using old, obsolete equipment? HELL NO. So speaketh the developing nations.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. In that order. Make computers out of reusable material, or at least material that can be recycled. If that was done, we wouldn’t be having these problems in the first place.

The environment directly affects the quality of our lives. The two are connected, it’s really fucking obvious, but retards continue to be allowed to make decisions. Granted, if the pot-smoking hippies hadn’t have raved about “mother earth” and stupid shit like that, we’d probably be a lot further along to taking care of ourselves through our land. Damn hippies gave environmentalism a bad image.