Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Talks at Google" channel.

  1. What democratizing affect have we seen ? We've seen local companies helping totalitarian regimes develop and carry out implementing controls and mining of data to find dissidents? We seen money be able to be ubiquitous in the media shouting down not just opposing voice but rational debate which seems to be just as threatening to the powers that be. When rational debate threatens the powers that be there is already an unresolvable problem! and technology is controlled and owned and gated by -
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  2. You don't seem to be able to handle discussion or debate. Your first words are an accusation you then fail to explain or back up before you move on to trying to spout some positive sounding gibberish so you can pretend to be in the know. Your reading comprehension needs a little work as well. As Kurzweil might say your, pattern recognizers are outworking your rationality.
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  3. If there was a simple solution Americans could get behind for these problems ... they would do it in a heartbeat. Americans wait for the crisis and like simple all-emcompassing solutions. So, all the oligarchs, or whatever you want to call them, have to do is keep things confusing, and make it look like there is argument on both sides. This started with alcohol, tobacco .... and now all the things going wrong are just too much, so we argue ... and argue ... and argue. Only, are we really arguing, or is what we see on the Internet that we ascribe to Russia, China or Macedonia are really coming or orchestrated by American oligarchs.
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  4. 1:13:25 It's a pretty tough sell to say that this tech stuff has been democratizing. This is the one thing I really dislike and distrust from Kurweil ... he shrugs off political and moral concerns, based on his "accomplishments" ... which are exactly what puts him in the greatest position to exploit and take advantage of it - of course he doesn't care about privacy, no one is going to invade his privacy. Technology has promoted the view of a small number of people over everyone else.
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  5. Starts at 2:12 .  Great book by the way, maybe the best of the year it was published.
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