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
3 comments:
I love the giant rainbow explosion whenever he says "super".
Anyway, attempting to recognize, define, understand and work out solutions to problems posed by this or that is not negativity, it is pragmatic, rational, reasonable, necessary and wise.
People who try to blow sunshine up everyone's ass aren't positive, they are in fact the negative ones, desperatly trying to pretend everyhting will be all right if they just don't look at the 800 pound gorilla right behind them.
Their phony pollyanna act masking their fears and ignorance actually is the cause or at least eneabler of many problems we are facing right now.
Climate Change? Don't be such a negative Nancy!
Speculative economic bubbles? You just don't understand economics...everything is sunshine and lollipops!
Invade Iraq? What could possibly go wrong?
Chuck away democracy on the hope that carbon nanotubes will miraculously turn into immortality machines ANY MINUTE NOW!
Thanks a lot assholes. You 'positive thinking' really did the trick. Sheesh.
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