Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Futurological M.O.

Superlative techno-utopian discourses seize on the confusion of customary capacities and expectations introduced by disruptive actually-emerging medical and network techniques, and invest these confusions with superficially "technicized" and hyper-individualized variations on the theological iconography of omni-predication to create and sustain sub(cult)ural identification among True Believers in otherwordly visions of "the future" that are unscientific but inevitably promote themselves as supremely scientific.

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