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:
let's see here:
-greets coworkers happily
-thanks lady for coffee
-walks around all day, not causing trouble
-owns an SUV
i think we have ourselves a pedophile.
boo 'gas guzzlers', but booer greenpeace, for being assholes.
Nice people don't own SUVs. Well, I suppose some nice people who are also deluded pampered idiots might, but that is neither here nor there. In any case, assholes deserve to be treated like assholes. Often the discomfiting force of social disapproval is the only way, short of outright legal sanction, to nudge them from their destructive misbehavior.
I have absolutely no doubt that the "nice" white guy in the nice suit and tie participates in and benefits from the circulation of such norms all the time -- and so you will forgive me when I say that the spectacle of social disapproval he confronts in consequence of his objectively harmful insensitive behavior as an American dumbass consumer in an era of catastrophic climate change is not one many will weep over, certainly not me. My only regret is that the scene is a daydream and doesn't reflect reality.
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