Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
"LOVE LOVE LOVE your futorological brickbats! Love them! You are in fine company with Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary with these." -- Paulina Borsook
"Devoted to highly rhetorical nitpicking, but it is fun to read." -- Chris Mooney
"Rather close but correct reading." -- Evgeny Morozov
"Mean, but true." -- Annalee Newitz
"Dale Carrico's skewering of the salvific pretensions of Silicon Valley's soi disant savior/founders never disappoints." -- Frank Pasquale
"Pretty breathless, but I guess it had to be said." -- Bruce Sterling
"An essential reality check for those who are too entranced by transhumanism to notice the sordid reality behind the curtain." -- Charlie Stross
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"MY DEAR WORMWOOD,
. . .
A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling
Unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from
the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for
others -— you can always tell the others by their hunted expression'.
All this can be begun even in the period of courtship. A little real
selfishness on your patient's part is often of less value in the
long run, for securing his soul, than the first beginnings of that
elaborate and self-consciousness unselfishness which may one day blossom
into the sort of thing I have described.
. . .
Your affectionate uncle
SCREWTAPE"
-- C. S. Lewis, _The Screwtape Letters_
Letter XXVI
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