tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post1736365138125785375..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Dumb Dvorsky TechBroSplains "Soft Paternalism"Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-73398862986099379092013-12-15T00:48:48.585-08:002013-12-15T00:48:48.585-08:00We were like cavemen grubbing in caves before Dvor...We were like cavemen grubbing in caves before Dvorsky gifted us with "techlepathy." Quite apart from how funny it is that these are words nobody actually uses mostly about things that are totally made up bullshit, which is even worse than the more usual futurological practice of coming up with neologisms nobody uses to describe things that already have perfectly good words to describe them and displace well established non-futurological disciplines and discourses devoted to their serious study -- I have a funny feeling Dvorsky didn't even really coin these coinages he's claiming. I mean, post-gender -- even setting aside how facile and clueless it is in his accounting of it -- a Dvorsky coinage for real? Please.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-12641636163265286282013-12-15T00:38:44.448-08:002013-12-15T00:38:44.448-08:00"Of course, the coinage of at best unnecessar...<i>"Of course, the coinage of at best unnecessary at worst actively obfuscating neologisms is pretty much futurism's only reliably consistent deliverable as an enterprise, so this move by Dvorsky isn't exactly surprising as such."</i> <br /><br />He can add this one to the list:<br /><br /><i>Dvorsky claims to have coined the following neologisms:<br /><br />Astrosociobiology, the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies.<br /><br />Postgenderism, a social philosophy which seeks the voluntary elimination of gender in the human species through the application of advanced biotechnology and assisted reproductive technologies.<br /><br />Techlepathy, neurotechnologically-assisted telepathy.</i><br /><br />From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dvorskyerickingsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15782878667594739997noreply@blogger.com