Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
Sunday, July 15, 2012
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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
3 comments:
> I think it's a scream but Eric warns me it comes off bitter.
Just explain to him that it's helping you stay in shape.
"I work out and I'm bitter -- that's my diet. Crunches and negativity."
-- Kathy Griffin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJEJu1k78s
I fear AbFab provides the better ref: Another one who's ballooned.
It seems you can go to Singularity University to learn how
to get ripped. (It's called "bio-hacking").
http://www.bulletproofexec.com
"There are citizen scientists like you, Tim Ferriss, Seth Roberts,
and that's about it."
-- Michael Vassar, President of The Singularity Institute
This guy (Dave Asprey) comments
(in http://www.bulletproofexec.com/calcium-d-glucarate/ )
"As a former 300 pounder who was pre-diabetic, and born with only 1 kidney,
I kind of like the one I have."
Now, if Eliezer Yudkowsky ended up looking like this:
http://www.bulletproofexec.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dave_abs_manila-217x300.jpg
I'd be impressed. ;->
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