NCCP 700-1016 Qwernomics Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality (Session 1)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to Quornomics, Path Dependency and Semiotic Fatality. I am going to pass off the mic to the course instructor, Nick Land. Great thanks a lot and yeah I will stop apologizing not because apologizing but because it's wasting everyone's time. I'm very grateful that you're hanging around. So…

• 00:25:49

  No, no, not that one. The David Cole one, he uses the term software and like so the the Remington is the hardware and then it's sort of like the actors themselves are the software so the typists that are learning the software that because... Right, right, right. Yeah. Okay, yes, yes. So he actually, I've shut down…

• 00:46:34

  I don't know. Yeah, I mean, it seems like it's very dependency on a particular like private entity that can, you know, go bankrupt and fail or can stop selling its stuff and that its vulnerability to that, like, if it was designing things that were sort of universally compatible in one way or another, then even…

• 01:03:01

  Now... In saying that, let me just make sure I'm following you. These other criteria are exactly the criteria that produce lock-in as far as David's concerned. Is that right? Like when he's... when he produces these... these three... these three different lock-in drivers, economies of scale and quasi-reversibility…

• 01:23:44

  It's more an issue of relative transcendence. That's driving its destiny pattern, I guess. Yes. I mean, this is I think it can. It's not quite the same as just respond. I think it's a slight a bleak to this. But you say this typing speed for sure, which can easily pass as if it's completely neutral and uncontroversial…

• 01:41:09

  He wanted to just do it all through speaking, through voice recognition software. Right. Yes. I mean, I guess that in terms of this initial question about why the QWERTY, the QWERTYnomics controversy or QWERTYnomics controversy has petered out. It's not an answer to this because it's too recent, but this technology…

• 02:00:31

  So you could... go away from the very idea of a keyboard. Sorry, I'm sort of trying to think about... Yeah. Yeah, no, no, no. I guess I'm thinking that... I guess going back to what I was saying, that with sufficient capital... I'm wondering, so the question was, is there a law to which QWERTY is subordinate? Yes. And…

• 02:21:42

  OK. I'm in. All right. I'm going to end broadcast now. OK. Cool. Thanks, everyone.