tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7104119728216660900..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: BusyDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-58849528585809871402007-09-22T23:56:00.000-07:002007-09-22T23:56:00.000-07:00I figured you'd been busy, what with having a life...I figured you'd been busy, what with having a life outside the computer and all. I don't generally expect people to update constantly -- people are not their blogs, after all. But definitely looking forward to further commentary.Anne Corwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940566603711834053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-76000576219648527492007-09-22T13:56:00.000-07:002007-09-22T13:56:00.000-07:00Oh? What about this one?I know many "serious" self...<I>Oh? What about this one?</I><BR/><BR/>I know many "serious" self-identified futurists whose discourse is scarcely distinguishable from that kid's, I'm afraid -- very much including the curious psychotic break that occurs at the mere mention of a "girl" at the 7:40 point in the presentation immediately following his giddy realization that he can't explain to himself why exactly he fetishizes robots <I>in particular</I> so fervently (thereby exhibiting a level of self-awareness that he is likely to lose should his preoccupations remain comparably futurological). <BR/><BR/>As for this kid, I recommend he read Anton Chekhov, William Burroughs, and Dorothy Parker before delving deeper into the transhumanist brain trust of Kurzweil, Dawkins, Drexler, Egan, Vinge, Minsky, and DeGrey, for heaven's sake.<BR/><BR/>This is not to say that I don't find such figures worthy of attention (and not only for their psychological and ethnographic fascinations) -- but just that I find them worthy always only in their proper measure and in their proper place, and very silly and even dangerously deranging when treated as the end all and be all as some technocentrics seem to me all too eager to do.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-91089660147168329102007-09-22T13:09:00.000-07:002007-09-22T13:09:00.000-07:00... the only self-identified "futurist" I have any...<I>... the only self-identified "futurist" I have any patience or use for at all these days.</I><BR/><BR/>Oh? What about <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5nA2SZX1nE" REL="nofollow">this one</A>?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com