Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
Saturday, April 06, 2013
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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
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Oh, some dumb dumb e-mailed me in a snit that I was "losing [them] as a reader" because my desire to "feel superior" made me try to be incomprehensible. I actually get that a lot. Needless to say, a person to whom I am incomprehensible is not "a reader" I can lose in the first place (they're already "lost" to me in their incomprehension) and it is hard to understand what makes somebody think I would write in a way calculated to annoy strangers by being just incomprehensible enough to most of them, however I could figure that out, but not comprehensible enough to actually be comprehended saying stuff. See what I mean? It seems a rather weirdly convoluted theory especially considering how often I hear variations of it from those who seem to think making strangers feel insecure must be some sort of catnip for somebody like me. Not that I think I'm the world's clearest, best, or nicest writer or anything, I never expected to be everybody's cup of tea and I never promised anybody a rose garden and so on and so forth, but I do think people of good will and good sense who make a good faith effort can get at what I'm up to on its merits. It's no big thing, tho'.
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