Woah. Wow. This is one of the more interesting things I've ever seen from Wired.

The lack of engagement with the democratic process and reliance on technology is a particular problem now because we consider "the clever people" to be those who know about technology. He describes "nerds" as the "new elite" -- the very people who should be helping to fix the political system. But they "are kind of lazy bastards who are too arrogant to go onto the streets. They are too arrogant to see it's important to not think that we can solve problems with better technology".

While this is partially true, the nerd elite is a minority and minorities don't win under democracy, but they can in entrepreneurship and business if they play their cards right.

I assume mentioning that everything he says is rank hypocrisy is unnecessary. I also -- why do I get the impression he didn't believe any of this five years ago?

Sunde thinks Netflix and Spotify are good services, but he stopped using the latter after it deleted some of the music he listened to. He had already deleted some music he couldn't get hold of any more from a hard drive because he "trusted Spotify to have it". He was scared away from the service permanently "because I realised that someone else is controlling the music that I listen to".

Wow. I'm so fucking blown away by this article, from the cofounder of the goddamn Pirate Bay. I mean ... I literally don't know what to say. If the BitTorrent community is dying (which can only be a good thing because I bet dying in this case is synonymous with going furtherunderground), this is why.

Wow, again.