HeavenlyPossumLike I said, fairly mundane. But it adds up when you consider that this process is playing out in every single aspect of our lives. It’s everywhere. We are drowning in information, overloaded and overwhelmed by it.
So some people specialize in curating that information for customers. Or aggregating it. Governments around the world spend billions of dollars each year on intelligence apparatuses to collect, process, and convey information is a desperate attempt to make the world more legible to state leaders. And all of these processes create yet more complexity.
It is unsustainable.
Consider bitcoin, the consumate solution in search of a problem. Despite the promises of its boosters, bitcoin and crypto generally have not displaced any pre-existing currencies. They have just massively piled yet more complexity on top of the global economy, virtually all of it bullshit. Bitcoin “mining” now consumes two whole percent of electricity in the US, all to perform math problems that are entirely pointless by design.
None of that touches on the vast architecture that has accreted around cryptocurrency—the forums and the exchanges and the NFTs—like some cancerous tumor.
Complexity on top of complexity on top of complexity.
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