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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Dangit, now I'm obsessing over ELO as a result of being reminded of "Xanadu". :P All your fault!
Seriously, this is some great stuff...
I have an (analog) laserdisc of Olivia Newton-John from
ca. 1980 with a number of her popular tracks on it,
some of which seem to have made their way to You Tube.
One track in that video collection -- "Hopelessly
Devoted" -- has always intrigued me, because of a tiny
detail that the (otherwise identical, but perhaps too
low-rez) You Tube version seems to lack. No -- I take
that back; it's **barely** visible. In the closeup at the
end, in the next-to-last repetition of the phrase "hopelessly
devoted to you", at the moment when she tosses her head
for the embellishment of the final syllable (oooh,
oooh ooh ooh), a perfectly-timed tear (which is
probably glycerine; it doesn't seem to have enough
surface tension to be water, but still. . .) falling
from her left eye (the right side of the picture)
tumbles away from her face at just the perfect instant.
I wonder how many takes it took to get **that** right?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpyG3PXoKw
BTW, whose 'do came first -- Olivia's, or
Princess Di's? Inquiring minds, and all that. . .
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