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
5 comments:
> I wonder what we'll bullshit over the next decade instead of
> building trains.
Driverless busses? Driverless trucks? ;->
Agreed.
Aren't we bullshiting over super vacuum literal pipe dream hyperloops instead of building real trains already?
I quite agree.
> How I Hope I Live To See It!
Well, at least you'll live to see this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rqfhwClvWMM/TrWDSR9lztI/AAAAAAAAGbk/yZEnJVHkeUM/s1600/Blade%2BRunner%2BOpening%2BTitles.png
(the date, if not the technology :-/ ).
You know, I really don't like anime, except for this one
(very _Blade Runner_ish) sequence that took my breath away
the first time I saw it:
Ghost in the Shell - Making of Cyborg (Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5pbmt9VSTM
(I don't mind the girl's face -- she's not supposed to be human,
after all -- but why'd they have to go and spoil it
with the cartoonish Beagle?)
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