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:
> Futurology peddles. . .
Hot off the presses:
http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Unbound-Future-Uploaded-Machine/dp/1118736281
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_Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds_
Russell Blackford (Editor), Damien Broderick (Editor)
Publication Date: August 18, 2014
"_Intelligence Unbound_ explores the prospects, promises, and
potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in
a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally
recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors,
and theorists."
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The "internationally recognized" luminaries include:
James J. Hughes, Michael Anissimov, Max More,
Natasha-Vita More, and Robin Hanson.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/publications#books
How much more state-of-the-art can you get?
> Futurology p[i]ddles. . .
http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/07/08/cishumanism/
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Through the continuing mass media exposure, transhumanism. . .ha[s]
been criticized as being “escapist” or having “contempt for the flesh.”. . .
But has the subject been delivered to the public in the right way?
When approaching the public with radical topics, such as mind uploading
and immortality, . . . individuals may feel alienated or nervous.
These feelings are the result. . . of improper delivery, and
require a more palatable approach than what has previously been done.
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It's all Pee Are, folks.
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