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
7 comments:
these elections are way too long.
just ignore it.
So we can go back to the transhumanism posts.
No doubt by this weekend I'll be railing against futurologists more than railing against Republicans again.
Your railing against futurologists is smart, funny, and original. Your commentary on politics isn't dumb, but it's not usually funny or all that original, as far I can see. It's your blog, of course, but here's one vote for more of the former, and less of the latter. :)
I tend to blog most about whatever is annoying me or amusing me or preoccupying my attention at the moment or -- occasionally -- issues I am thinking through in real time. The blog's entertainment and persuasive value for readers is kinda sorta incidental (and from my perspective largely unpredictable). Also, I'm teaching an undergraduate course on technodevelopmental questions right now, and so I guess I'm getting my anti-futurological kicks elsewhere for the time being. Glad to have you here, though.
> No doubt by this weekend I'll be railing against futurologists
> more than railing against Republicans again.
Well, Roko Mijic sez (in a delightfully frank comment in an old blog
thread that engendered considerable concern among the faithful,
at the time; i.e.,
http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com/2008/04/transhumanism-still-at-crossroads.html )
"I think that we need to make it clear that transhumanism is
for rational people ONLY, and criticism of the like found here
will hopefully stop."
Ya got that?
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