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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> Just saw a. . . commercial premised on the patently false beliefs. . .
Never more than a little bit of customization required.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/09/30/skepticism-is-so-easily-displaced-by-fantasy/
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We’ve seen it so many times before, you think we’d learn.
The glib, charismatic con man, short on evidence but long
on vision. The desirable dream: cure my fatal disease,
show me proof of an afterlife, teach me how to unleash my
psychic powers. We’re supposed to be good at recognizing
those, and rejecting them. But it turns out that the
con man just needs to tailor his fantasy to fit, and he can
reach even the hard core skeptics. . .
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Big Daddy will show us the way!
Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?
> Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious
> odor of mendacity in this room?
One o' them no-neck monsters must've cut the cheese.
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