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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I thought -- and definitely hoped -- Bernie would endorse HRC and it looks like he is doing so, and before the Convention, and this is a good thing. I thought that the overwhelming majority of Sanders supporters would switch their support to HRC after she won -- I thought this, by the way, because polls kept showing most Democrats were satisfied with HRC as a candidate throughout the campaign even if they were not supporting her as their first choice -- and they have done so even more quickly and more decisively than I expected, and this is also a good thing. An incredibly noisy minority of Sanders supporters in social media and in front of cameras managed to convey a different image of what was happening in the Sanders campaign. Since so many of them behaved so badly and so many of them celebrated a profoundly counter-productive anti-pragmatism given the ideal outcomes they presumably hoped for I think this skewed impression made me worry more than I needed to do and made me more frustrated than was good for me. Now I find their quite marginal and ridiculous efforts as an occasion for mirth (hence the title of this post). I am glad things are turning out as they seem to be.
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