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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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> Futurologists want to be. . . culture critics.
And culture critics, apparently, want to be futurologists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/fashion/artificial-intelligence-as-a-threat.html
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Fashion & Style - Disruptions
Artificial Intelligence as a Threat
By NICK BILTON
NOV. 5, 2014
Ebola sounds like the stuff of nightmares. Bird flu and
SARS also send shivers down my spine. But I’ll tell you
what scares me most: artificial intelligence. . .
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"Fashion & Style". How appropriate. ;->
Nobody who falls for futurological formulations for long is capable of doing cultural criticism. Ad copy simply isn't critical, however snazzy.
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