On: The Horrible Future of Social

[lemiffe]

I absolutely loved (and was repulsed by the reality of) this segment: "Our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia."

[icebraining → lemiffe]

It's as true as how photographs stole the souls of 19th century Native Americans.

[rbranson → lemiffe]

Imagine the horror when you find out all the worldly financial assets you've accrued over your entire life are just a few database entries dispersed over a few databases on some spinning disk in some rack in some datacenter somewhere?

[X-Istence → rbranson]

Now if only they would have some disk corruption in my favour :P