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
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"Rather close but correct reading." -- Evgeny Morozov
"Mean, but true." -- Annalee Newitz
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"Pretty breathless, but I guess it had to be said." -- Bruce Sterling
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4 comments:
That's an awfully fancy band aid you've got on that sucking chest wound. That's what I call progress.
This situation is very dire. The guys at the Oil Drum have voice concerns about using seawater (which contains oxygen and salt) destroying the piping. There's a very real possibility of a Chernobyl level disaster.
The nuclear renaissance that wasn't really happening is now truly dead. The real danger I see is an uptake in coal as a result.
> Robot armies doing nuclear cleanup. . .
Who needs robots when we've got Tom Cruise and Charlie Sheen?
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/01/tom-the-dancing-bug-38.html
http://nei.org/newsandevents/information-on-the-japanese-earthquake-and-reactors-in-that-region/
UPDATE AS OF 10 A.M. EDT, SATURDAY, MARCH 19:
Preparations were being made to spray water into the used fuel pool at reactor 4, and an unmanned vehicle sprayed more than 1,500 gallons of water over seven hours into the used fuel pool at reactor 3, Edano said.
Daph's got can-do futurological tiger blood.
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