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
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Now I realize that Net Neutrality must have been just another Future Day miracle.
One fine future Future Day they say Nanosanta will upload all the extreme techbros and celebrity CEOs into Holodeck Heaven as cyberangels among the sexy sexbots...
The Future is a white penis, they say.
Or that's what they pray on Future Day.
And now we have arrived at Future Day's future, but it's not Future Day anymore. Sad.
> The Future is a white penis, they say.
> Or that's what they pray on Future Day.
If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine. . .
"Frank Furedi is a professor of sociology at the
University of Kent in southern England. For many years
he was also the guru of his own tiny Trotskyist sect. . .
but by the early 90s Trotsky was out of fashion on campus
and the prospects. . . looked bleak. So Furedi decided
to take the path of many a Trotskyist before him; like
Burnham, Kristol, Hitchens and Larouche, he made an
opportunistic jump from far left to far right, and took
most of his sect with him.
His political trajectory can be determined by three vectors:
his hatred of feminism, his hatred of identity politics
and his hatred of environmentalism. . .
These days not even [Frank] Furedi confuses himself for a
leftist. He openly describes himself as a libertarian,
with the caveats that he's a "humanist" rather than a
free-marketeer, and a mystical humanist rather than a
Dawkins-style reductionist. Above all, he seeks the
return of "Enlightenment values" . . .
I've had it up to here with "Enlightenment values". When
people say "Enlightenment values", they really mean "dicks":
hard, white, straight, male dicks. If you want a picture of
"Enlightenment values", imagine a dick jizzing on a
human face forever."
-- Stephen Bond, "Pandora's Docs"
http://web.archive.org/web/20140112102003/http://plover.net/~bonds/pandorasdocs.html
Too bad "Stephensplatz" went away. Oh well, at least the essays
are still available (for the time being) via the Wayback Machine.
It's awfully good to have you here in the Moot again. I was beginning to fear that your retirement had caused you to forsaken us to watch The Outer Limits and Brideshead Revisited on a continuous loop while some slim youth in a posing strap drops grapes in your mouth (which is more or less my vision of retirement, after all).
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