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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It's painfully obvious if you read or watch any of the older stuff so it's surprising that people don't grok this.
The reason I ever once loved sci-fi was because it inspired in me the question: "what if there exists more than what is?". Of course by "what is" I mean, what authority and church declare "what is". So in that sense, sci-fi was, when I was young, a vehicle enabling me to reach outside my family, outside my church, outside all authority into "what may be"...someday. Sci-fi was a guide-star to me in that way. BUT I was young, and no one is young anymore (maybe). In any case, now I can see that "what if" is nothing but bullshit. Then agin I can always pray to Jesus. Well, off to work... ;D
I'm not sure I mean by the what if and the what is precisely what you do that may or may not have set you off here. Be that as it may, if it really has come to that, good luck with baby Jesus.
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