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
8 comments:
You're right, that song hits all the bases, but there is no way he compares to TMBG.
TMBG favorite song thread! TMBG favorite song thread!
My favorite: "Where Your Eyes Don't Go."
Honorable mention "We Want A Rock."
Hi Dale,
I just read a quote by Helene Cixous that says, "So one might as well know that the principal enemy in life is fear. To write only has meaning if the gesture of writing makes fear retreat."
Other than distrusting the word "only," my first reaction to this quote was a sense of identification. Studying rhetoric quickly came to feel vital for me because in learning the contestability of ideas I had previously taken for granted, I more acutely felt the pain of their inaccuracy, and sought (and continue to seek) tools to understand/reject/transform the powerful arguments I encounter every day. I can see that as an exercise in reducing fear, since the ideas I'm most inclined to confront are those that control through fear.
Then I thought of you, and I wondered how you would react to that statement. Is "making fear retreat" in any sense an intention in your writing? Or is there a different/additional/better way that you would characterize the value of the information you offer?
It's very hard for me to decide between "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" and Ana Ng.
Favorite TMBG Song: Mammal
Runner Up: I Should Be Allowed to Think
I totally just got tickets to see JoCo the other day! Nerd factor high.
TMBG: I want to say "New York City" because I can never get straight if they covered Cub or if Cub covered them. Either way, the Cub association leaves that song very high on my list. And I don't know much other TMBG except what I listened to in 1989.
TMBG covered Cub, and grrl you are just tooo coool.
I'm sure I sense sarcasm! No one thinks anyone going to see Jonathan Coulton live could be too cool.
But I'll take it!
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