The huge difference is that the former seems to portray the image of a man sitting on a mad-scientist-esque luxury leather chair with a thousand button control device in front of him waiting for his command. Most humanity's hopes and future is put into the moral values of a scientist(or group of scientists). That's technocracy. I don't and nobody should support technocracy, as it would eventually lead to bias and ultimately corruption.
The latter instead("distributed computing" or "cloud computing") is already happening now and it is booming like nothing else. Even the mainstream media is not ignoring the huge outcome of this powerful and potentially benevolent resource that is showing positive results in computing cures for Malaria, solving aminoacid combinations for proteins that has the potential of curing HIV and alzheimer's disease. It currently serves business for calculations of logistics, product and monetary management. It is the #1 source for information, and it has allowed Open Software and Open hardware systems to proliferate, which have more effective communities than proprietary software and private digital content firms.
Distributed computing will become the management resource of the 21st century, it is only a matter of deciding whether we will let the financial elite take control, or will fight against their archaic system to implement a Marxist ideology upon which such distributed system works for everyone rather than for a few elitists.
With the advent of the revolutions all around the world (Egypt rising, Libya civil war, Occupy Wall Street, Indignados in Spain, protests in Greece, Japanese outrage of Nuclear energy, etc.), it is time to propagate the idea of a Resource Based Economy, but most importantly how technology already works for us, and can keep doing it in a much more efficient fashion than what the business paradigm currently allows.
Another huge problem, and it shows when someone is exposed to the RBEM idea, is that people don't know how to use technology, they still think that the mobile device will explode if you press the wrong button, or that machines make mistake more often than humans(scapegoat, anyone?). Machines don't think as we do, yet, they just happen to follow a series of instructions we order them to accomplish, what if we order them to automate food production, and self-sustainable homes? That can all be done with current technology and for everyone. Just search over the internet and see how many technologies are already helping business.
Artificial intelligence, on the other side, has even more potential to accelerate technological development, because the computing power that these artificial entities living on the cyber-cloud will posses, will exceed in every way the human brain capabilities in no less than 20 years. That is not to suggest that we become useless, au contraire, if we join the cybernated systems(just like we have being doing by accepting a desktop computer in our house, a mass-manufactured t-shirt around our thorax, an music player while jogging etc.), we will be able to compute our solutions much faster than we ever did. Ethical Artificial Intelligence will develop solutions to hunger, resource scarcity, decision making help(I underline help, because personal decision would still be decided by the individual), space exploration, psyche exploration and more.
In sight of these advents, we must end all military and business power, we don't need defence when there is no need for attack(which in the majority of cases is for perceived or real scarcity of resources), and business is an archaic, detrimental practice that has no relevance to today's powerful technological driven abundance boost.
A transition has to emerge from the realization that the conventional way of running our lives is not the most efficient and requires unnecessary frustration, boredom and even suffering to maintain the status quo. The transition is not easy, people will complain about loosing their businesses they've worked so hard for. But they will soon realize that all the good they produced will still be valuable in the transition period, and that without those business models, the transition couldn't have been put forward in the first place. So no hard feelings on hard working business people.
Are we going to sit there staring at the TV screen hearing what to do with our lives(mainly buy sht that you don't need, AKA consumerism), political propaganda(the evil mid-east dictators eat babies alive, while Western Dictators like Berlusconi are just an excuse for a sex joke) and conformism driven ideologies? Or are we going to educate ourselves by reading and informing the best way we can and contribute to society motivated by altruism and true care?
The revolution starts in the mind.
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