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
5 comments:
Somebody's been to the gym... but why do I get the feeling he's compensating? And who wants to spoon all night with a cheese grater?
I think he's already lost his head over somebody else!
(And yes, why the hell do robots need six-pack abs and
striated pecs?)
Off topic:
I have combed through many of the posts on this blog, and I have not found many of your posts dedicated to space exploration/colonization. Do you think that serious deliberation about heading off-world belongs in the same context as Robot Gods, etc, or do you think that is actually legitimate?
Intuitively, to me, space exploration/colonization belongs in an entirely different strata from the more, how should I say it, hyperbole-laden topics such as transhumanism, since there are actually well-respected people (e.g. Stephen Hawking, Freeman Dyson, or really anybody working for NASA) who say that our only hope for a future is to get off of this planet/get out of the solar system. Anyway, I'm just curious as to what your thoughts on this topic are.
P.S. No, I would most certainly not hit it. Personally, I like my bits not flayed.
> why the hell do robots need six-pack abs and
striated pecs?
And what looks like a **navel**, I only just noticed!
(Well, I suppose he's supposed to be a Borg, or something.)
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