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
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You too could be the proud owner of a plastic box with a teal instead of a magenta or lime stripe (along with a few million others)!
Also amused how many car commercials are premised on the awareness that cars are all now indistinguishable from one another, whereupon the car advertised (indistinguishable from the rest) is presented as a spectacle of gasp-inducing singularity, possibly because it is red while all the others were white, or because there are nearly nude athletes lolling on it, or because it is filmed inches from its polished surface basking in strobe lights.
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