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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You know, I just read a "techo-thriller" a few weeks ago
with a couple of smart crows in it (employed by government
agents) -- Daniel Suarez' _Kill Decision_.
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Decision-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451417704/
But in that book, the Singularity maguffin isn't the crows --
it's a swarm of killer drones (like the ones Amazon is planning
to use to deliver packages ;-> ) programmed to behave like
a colony of particularly aggressive ants.
I suppose Ray Kurzweil owns the Singularity(R) brand these days,
but those **other** people -- you know, the ones we used to
call "The Singularitarians" proper? -- don't use that word any
more. In fact, you're not supposed to mention it around
them, or you get -- I don't know what.
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Donny my analyst always tells me...
You call your analyst Donny?
Yeah. I call him Donny!
I call mine "Dr. Chomsky" or, you know,
he hits me with a ruler.
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