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
7 comments:
Ew. Way too Flavor of Love 2491 for me, also way too child touchy.
What about android Gigolo Joe (played by Jude Law) from A.I.?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technosexual
Who knew Yosemite Sam had a bedroom voice?
No, but when I was 12 I had a crush on Tina
(you know, Platinum from the DC "Metal Men"
comics).
My gut reaction was "eww... it's a kid!" but now that I've thought about that reaction, I'm going to have to discuss it with my therapist. I mean, my AI class. We spend a lot of time talking about the difference between the ontology of robotics and our *judgments* of that ontology.
I'm going to have to discuss it with my therapist. I mean, my AI class.
I know just what you mean...
> > I'm going to have to discuss it with my therapist.
> > I mean, my AI class.
>
> I know just what you mean...
Ha!
You know, I read someplace [*] that Ayn Rand's entire literary
career was a self-administered course of psychotherapy --
exorcizing her own demons via Howard Rourke and John Galt
and Dagny Taggart and Dominique Françon.
Then again, I guess **life** is a course of psychotherapy,
ain't it, whether "self-administered" or shoved down the
throat.
[*] Must've been something like this one:
"Rand obviously had something very wrong with her, which she
was trying to fix through her writing. The psychiatrist Richard Restak,
in his book, The Self Seekers, knew what the problem was:
'Homicidal rage is the ultimate measure resorted to in an
effort to repair the damaged sense of self.' Yikes, that's the
plot of Atlas! All that hate, rage and envy were Rand's own
feelings she projected onto all her 'looters.' She took to heart
the first rule of writing: 'write about what you know.' She was
engaging in self-therapy through writing. Only it didn't work
(the Objectivist psychologist Alan Blumenthal called Objectivism
a system of psychotherapy for Rand)."
http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2008/03/secret-teachings-of-ayn-rand.html
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