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
2 comments:
Obama Told Us to Speak Out, but Is He Listening?
William Greider, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/19/AR2009031902511_pf.html
Has a 'Katrina Moment' Arrived?
Frank Rich, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html
The Big Takeover
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print
We're in This Together
Chuck Collins, On the Commons
http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2383
The headline was ironic.
Obama hasn't wrecked everything, and nothing was fine.
And it's easier to say what's wrong than what's next.
That isn't to deny the necessity of saying what's wrong, but it is to point out that facilitating pragmatically possible progressive outcomes in the midst of what's wrong is much harder than saying what's wrong.
People who blunt the only tools they have on hand to do what they want aren't behaving intelligently. Simple as that.
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