Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
Monday, December 26, 2011
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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
2 comments:
One could always not watch TV. Particularly day-time TV. Or one could not care much about what celebrities look like.
Mass media delivers what the masses want. Supply and demand in its most amusing feedback form. That doesn't mean that everyone has to play along.
Everybody alive is playing along. Denial is just one more consumer marketing lifestyle niche. I say this as an adult-lifelong atheist, feminist, anti-militarist, environmentalist, vegetarian without a car, cellphone, or clothes dryer. A less glib way of putting this is to say non-cooperation isn't really available when we are talking about globe-girdling networked-formations -- there is only education, agitation, organization to re-articulate them in more wholesome and democratizing ways. I see critique -- including occasionally memorable little wisecracks -- as one way of making a go at just that. Also, too, there are in my view some very good things on tee vee, as there are good things online, in books, in performance, in galleries, and so on.
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