On Friday, May 4, 2012 12:15:52 PM UTC-4, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
On May 4, 2012 10:57 AM, "mad_casual" <ademlookes@gmail.com> wrote:
> MARC GOODMAN is pretty clearly a shady character himself. Anyone who says, "Never before in the history of humankind has it been
> possible for one person to rob 100 million people."Other than the internet, what has historically enabled a single person to rob 100 million people??? His comment makes sense to me
Makes sense to me too. I met Marc recently and saw him give a talk about "future crimes". It was quite interesting. He began by talking about how the internet made robbery far more scaleable. "In the old days", you might rob a single person in a dark alley. With trains, you might be able to rob the whole train under the right circumstances. But, that is about the maximum scaleability for that crime. You couldn't really walk into a sports stadium of 60,000 people and say "stick'em up". Until the internet made it possible for a single individual to reach millions of people (electronically via online bank accounts, phishing, etc).
Anyway, I find the "he is clearly idiot" line of argumentation rather juvenile and annoying. Best to point out the flaws in reasoning and debate those.
Jason
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