# Tortoise Hill Glen Carlou

Estava apagando fotos antigas e me deparei com a foto deste rótulo. Havia um bom tempo que estava tentando lembrar o nome deste vinho. Ele é sul africano e pelo que havia lido na época ele é de uma vinícola ou um enólogo que é alérgico a álcool. Vale revisitar a história para checar.

# Recortes superatuais de Theodore Kaczynski

Estava lendo descontraído minhas anotações na época da morte do Unabomber e me descobri estupefato sobre o quão atual e preciso alguns de seus comentários e previsões se tornaram ao longo do tempo. Deixo aqui os recortes dos recortes.

Entertainment provides modern man with an essential means of escape. While absorbed in television, videos, etc., he can forget stress, anxiety, frustration, dissatisfaction. Many primitive peoples, when they don’t have work to do, are quite content to sit for hours at a time doing nothing at all, because they are at peace with themselves and their world. But most modern people must be constantly occupied or entertained, otherwise they get “bored,” i.e., they get fidgety, uneasy, irritable.

But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines’ decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machine off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.

Boredom too tends to cause excessive pleasure-seeking since, lacking other goals, people often use pleasure as a goal.