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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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I recall the first two well enough. What's the third one talking about?
It follows directly from the second, if you like -- notice the difference in the way circumstances are differently described and contextualized by those holding and aiming the guns from those at whom the guns are aimed. How did we get here? What does this mean? What happens next? The answers will tend to be different, and a true accounting will tend to benefit from both and suffer from the neglect of either.
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