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
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"Rather close but correct reading." -- Evgeny Morozov
"Mean, but true." -- Annalee Newitz
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"An essential reality check for those who are too entranced by transhumanism to notice the sordid reality behind the curtain." -- Charlie Stross
2 comments:
Cheers to that.
Coming from and living in a rural community myself, it sucks that farmers are often the audiences for politicking and thought of when we think about whatever it is we think of when we think about the rural. Farm workers, service workers, industrial workers, 'criminals,' all of whom often reside in rural places for various reasons (seems like property values and etc) are shunned or just not given an opportunity to represent themselves either because they lack status or cannot vote. Empowering these communities could be good for both dislocating this misguided idyllic perception of the rural and the lone family farmer, which is basically fantasy and for changing the political landscape here (and places like here) as well.
If only it weren't so damned lonely living out in the middle of 'nowhere.'
Hey, good to hear from you, hope all is well in your world these days!
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