The last little piece

The present IP, offering 32-bit data labels.
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Can now offer every living human a unique online address
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Limiting direct access to something like 10 billion web pages or specific computers.
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In contrast, IPv6 will use 128 bits.
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This will allow the virtual tagging of every cubic centimeter of the earth's surface
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From sea level to mountaintop.
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Spreading a multidimensional data overlay across the planet.

Every tagged or manmade object may participate
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From your wristwatch to a nearby lamppost.
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Vending machine or trash can.
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Even most of the discarded contents of the trash can.

As presaged by naming and number, the potential exists for us to attempt the conversion of every object and person in the world into a dataset.

Whether in the digitization of music or the quantization of reality implicit in VR.
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The insanity of our ferocious strivings to manufacture a reality almost as good as the real thing should be plain.
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We are exerting tremendous effort to make an inferior version of a freely available original.
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Similar to our fevered attempt to recreate the original affluence, in which "work" was not yet a concept, through ever more efficient labour-saving devices.
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That manufactured reality is inferior is demonstrated by the increasing intensity of our simulations
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Which seek to compensate for the lost richness and intensity of unmediated experience.
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No matter how large a set of numbers we produce to describe reality, something of its infinitude is lost.
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Instead we must settle for "close enough"
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The lesser lives we live in the age of separation.

The systems of representation—number, language, image, and so forth
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We interpose between ourselves and reality are always a reduction of what they purport to represent.

The Scientific Program of a complete mathematisation of the universe is yet another Tower of Babel.
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Childishly, foolishly aiming to attain the Infinite by finite means.


Pretty silly really, unless unless we understand that it is all to do with money.
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The monetisation of everything on this planet.
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Our failed and failing financial system requires this.
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Because if  I can reduce everything to numbers then I can control.
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And if I can control then I can charge you money for what I control.
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Ergo I win!
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Silly, silly people what they win reduces their own and our lives to shadows of what they could be.
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Could have been.
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They win nothing except some more things or stuff
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Things and stuff are not winning.
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They are merely compensation for empty thing filled lives.
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Lives lived separated from each other is no win.