Open-source is a means of production.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.

It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.