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Saturday, June 26, 2010

This Week's White Guys of "The Future" Report

Another seven days have passed, and I've made my usual jaunt to the website of the Robot Cult outfit, IEET, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

This week's verse, same as the first, and most of the next and the rest... Although only a minority of people in the world are white guys, and only a minority of people with whom tomorrow will be made and shared are white guys, and only a minority of people in the world impacted by technodevelopmental changes are white guys, and only a minority of people in the world who are well informed and have important things to say about matters of technoscience are white guys, nevertheless I can report that yet again this week, of the fifteen portraits of today's featured authors and speakers there you will find nobody who is not a white guy. This is still as weird and wrong as it was when I reported it in weeks prior to this one. Not that there aren't endlessly many other weird and wrong things to say about the Robot Cultists (for some of which, go here), but still.

2 comments:

Summerspeaker said...

I see two white women amongst the white dudes on the website today. Not that that's a tremendous difference.

Dale Carrico said...

Indeed. It isn't.