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
2 comments:
If you and Morozov say technology doesn't destroy jobs, but, by implication, greedy corporate captains do, does that mean your ideal society is a make-work society?
On the contrary, I am an advocate of a make-twerk society. I mean, seriously, that's a rather odd either-or to reduce to, isn't it? I would say, if I must, that my "ideal society" would be one in which the diversity of stakeholders to the present may make equitable recourse to law and human rights for the nonviolent adjudication of disputes and collective solution of shared problems, in which the public provision of basic income, education, healthcare, general welfare secure the scene of actually legible informed nonduressed consent to the terms of everyday commerce, and in which public investments and commons are accountably administered for sustainable civilization and the public good. Technology-talk is probably mostly a distraction from the substance of that question.
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