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Better than awashing machine!
Extraordinary Computerized Home-based Technologies™
(ECHT), Inc.
Extraordinary Computerized Home-based Technologies™
(ECHT), Inc.
Extraordinary Computerized Home-based Technologies™, Inc. aims to provide the consumers of the world with a network for the quick distribution of the most advanced software technologies available anywhere.
ECHT™ technologies will improve the world by establishing a reciprocal relationship of ECHT™ users, thus allowing ECHT™ to prosper and thus further deploy ECHT™ technologies, which will greatly improve the world and the world’s consumers.
Future ECHT™ users today look forward to a future suffused by ECHT™ technologies.
Future ECHT™ users today will enable ECHT™ to attain such a future by enjoying ECHT™ fruits, by contributing to the ECHT™ image in various ways (including spiritual), and finally by voting in accordance with ECHT™-determined guidelines in all the democracies of the world.
This will permit not only greater deployment of ECHT™ technologies, but the internal and external growth of the political structures that make ECHT™ growth possible.
ECHT™ managers are people—human and corporate—who believe that advanced computer technology will vastly improve the world in one way or another.
Are you an ECHT™ manager?
It has, however,
some luminaries.
ECHT™ managers come from all walks of life and commerce. Like its technologies, like its networks, ECHT™ is distributed—it is decentralized, non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian, and automatic. ECHT™ is as intelligent as you or I.
How would
you like to be
immortal?
Hans believes that one day, trillion-armed robots will extract our brains and make us immortal. Also, he believes computers will one day get rid of entropy.
Marvin really wants to get rid of
his body—and yours!
Another of our managers is Marvin Minsky.
Marvin used to work for MIT, and now he works for Disney.
(Most of our managers likewise have a problem with their bodies,
which they call “wetware.”)
You see, most of our managers grew up tyrannized by brawny types who had no problem at all with their bodies.Bodies came to seem... stupid.Our managers,
understandably enough, feel that various things about the world ought to be re-engineered.
Bodies, for instance.
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Each time, the consumers of the world have shown their willingness to receive the promoted informations in a constructive and congenial manner.Each time, the world’s
consumers have absorbed the resultant “problems” graciously and with profitable humility.
In the past, other industries have had ideas about radically improving the world, and have presented these ideas to the world’s consumers.
At the 1939 World’s Fair, the General Motors pavilion showed the benefits of a “city planned around a modern traffic system.”
1. The automobile
G.M. and others spent a great deal of money on films, exhibits, and prototypes to show the American public how wonderful the car-centered city would be... to show them
Then, to bring their vision to life, G.M., Standard Oil and B.F. Goodrich spent the 1940s destroying the electric trolley lines of 54 U.S. cities.
Verdict: “conspiring against the public good”
Something similar happened with food.
For decades, a few humanitarian voices (most recently, Monsanto et al.) have been promising to “feed the world.”
2. Food
“Feeding the world” has been the stated reason for the development of
genetic modification.
the hybridization of ever more profitable (but less diverse) crop varieties,
and now
pesticides,
Unfortunately, the result of pesticides, excessive hybridization and now
genetic modificationhas been disastrously bad for Third-World nations. It has also been rather unpleasant for First-World shoppers.
It has, however, been good for companies like Monsanto, Novartis, Pioneer, etc., and also for First-World doctors and hospitals.
Genetic modification has also been bad for laboratory animals.
While this does not affect the world’s hungry, it does throw a wrench in the works.
Public Relations disaster!
3. Primitive modern technologies
Finally there’s the case of “modern” technologies—
dishwashers, refrigerators, home PCs, cell phones, etc.:
things once touted as
leisure producers.
“I like electrical engineers: they
signed our Emancipation
Proclamation.”
Home technologies were supposed to make life very easy for women, and give them unlimited leisure. In a Westinghouse movie about the 1939 World’s Fair, an old woman says
Wide access to computer technology, too, was supposed to reduce work for everyone, free up time, and generally make life richer and easier.
It is now common knowledge that computers, cell phones, and so on have contributed greatly to theerosion of
leisureWaste
!
As for women, we all know they want to work sixty-hour weeks just like men—but what about men? Do they want to work more than their pre-“modern” forbears?
Public relations disaster!
What now?Bearing these counter-examples in mind,
what doesExtraordinary Computerized Home-based
Technologies™, Inc. hope to do now?
ECHT™ distributes the most advanced technologies in the world via unusual social and technological networks whose results resemble those of yesteryear but whose nature differs from them in several important respects.
Whereas previous industries studied charts, assured shipments, and enhanced physical modalities, ECHT™ develops new modalities, assures collaboration, and studies those equations in which God plays dice, in which some things must even be
shaping infoflowexploring dependencieschanneling informationestablishing datamodes
Where previous industries were about
ECHT™ software
and networks are about
limiting choicesgenerating desiresconfusing the issuestrapping consumers
In other words...
Every single aspect of what we do involves people. People configure our product after they own it. People can even produce brand-new products and send them back into our network streams. People determine us, and we thus form a pure consumer democracy.
Yes, there is one way in which ECHT™ is superior to the industries of the past:
And ECHT™ itself involves people in all its decisions. People are at the root of our production systems, our decision-making process, and our systems for just kicking back and having a honking good time.In these ways, ours is different from all past industries.
In one word, we can assure our investors that nothing has changed.The laws in which our industry
operates are almost the same as those in which Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and all the other industrialists worked—except they favor corporate might even more.
Like our stupider, more prosaic forebears, we are all about profit, about making money no matter what, about the triumph of might: we’re just much more conniving, have more time to burn, and have even more resources at our disposal.Investors, do not be scared: these are the only differences between us and our forebears.