amor mundi

Part I. Technocentrism, Technophilia, and Technophobia A technophile is a person to whom we attribute a naïve or uncritical enthusiasm for ...

A friendly critic just posted to complain about a glib comment I am often overheard to make; namely, that scientific practice is in an impor...

"Tomayto Tomahto," is what, in effect, one e-pistolary correspondent had to say about my claim in yesterday's "GIGOO...

As more and more computers continue to grow more and more powerful, more and more people worry more and more about the specter of hostile or...

David Brin is a storyteller first of all, and his argument that we should embrace ubiquitous and “uniform” surveillance while we demand univ...

As The Transparent Society is drawing to its close, David Brin retells the ancient Greek story of a “farmer, Akademos, who did a favor for ...