Yucky Zucky

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important — creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Steve Jobs

Drugs, profound though they are, are not for everyone.

Thoughts, profound though they are, are not for everyone.

Information will be democratized.

Instead of change, we will keep information. “Keep the bytes.”

Not all information is valuable, but all information has potential; the difficulty, is finding a market. As history as shown, what money can’t currently buy, capitalism swoops in to supply. As we find more uses for information, through the levers of capitalism, we will move many bytes.

There is general unease going on because we have a fundamental economic shift. Think industrial revolution. Gas, steam, coal, nuclear, fission, coughing, chugging, wheezing us into economic prosperity. Did some countries end up on the receiving end of this? Such is life. Hey — everything works out to be a normal distribution in the limit anyway right?

The release of energy was the outcome of the first industrial revolution, and it granted us beefy arms to manipulate reality into our will.

Though reality of this can be ugly, it can also be beautiful. As long as you skim off the best that post-capitalist society has to offer, like skimming off the foam of a fine latte… where the milk is 100% fat free.

Ugly is an ugly word. ugly!!! Now that that’s out of my system, let’s talk about the money. Haha! I won’t give you all my advice. Heck! My advice is only worth a few billion, some 35k espresso machines, and has a conspicuous lack of vowels.

Spelling. Isn’t it applied linguistics? Linguistics applied english? English is a tool as well, of communication. That XKCD comic had it right the whole time!

Literature, isn’t it just… bear with me because this is a mouthful… applied human-joy-and-suffering-and-everything-in-between jammed, shaken not swirled, into a lugubrious leaking crate? Perhaps.

Does perhaps make me seem profound?

Perhaps.

Anyway, the Industrial Revolution of information. How can we move information around. That’s what Facebook, Mark Zucky has his eyes on. Oh you — Mark, oh you. He’s not aiming to take over the world — whatever he creates, someone smarter than him will take over and take the next logical leap that none of us can even fathom. So why look at him and project our fears, worries, insecurities, and other mishmash and minutiae of being a sad, belching, heart-burning, stomach-aching human being?

Because we envy him to a certain extent. He can’t be a good person, because we envy him. And we are taught not to be envious people. So bad! Like Pavlovian conditioning. Really, there’s not much wrong with this really really smart guy from Harvard.

Is Mark really trying to steal our attention? Or is he just like us, trying to squeeze a legacy, and some pocket change on the side, out of the world? He doesn’t have the world in his palm. He might have simply opened Pandora’s box for all of us, and we really just owe him thanks. Round of applause for this man. 👏👏👏

We, especially those of us that are engineers, approach the world analytically. Our teachers throw mental mishmash and minutiae at us, hoping something as slippery as wisdom will stick. They often fail, not because of intellectual strife or lack of goodwill, but because of the friction inherent in communicating with language. Will there eventually be a better way of transmitting information? My guess is yes, and who’s trying? Facebook.

Blueprints are the footprints of buildings. What are the footprints of knowledge then? Deciphering this will help us expedite the transfer of knowledge — which I have come to the conclusion is simply: information with value.