IN TECHNOLOGY WE TRUST

...selected quotes for your reading pleasure

BATTLE OF THE iNTERNET

THE DIGITAL D I V I D E

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ONLY 3% OF THE POOREST HOUSEHOLDS

HAVE ACCESS TO THE NET,
WHILE
48% OF
THE RICHEST HOUSEHOLDS
ARE ON LINE.

"WE ARE DEALING WITH TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE SO TRANSFORMATIVELY POWERFUL THAT THEY THREATEN OUR SPECIES."

"The evolution of technology
just continues the ...explosion of biological evolution.
In the 21st century we will maek 20,000 years of progess."

I do worry about
intelligent robots getting strange ideas...'

"R2D2'S GONE A BIT FUNNY ON US."

Every scientist has become a new phylum and everyone is running around thinking they'll be the biggest mammal . They all want to be billionaires and no one wants to think about implications of their research.

Is it time to ...

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I AM BECOME DEATH (FATHER OF THE QUOTE GAVE BIRTH TO THE BOMB)

TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU WANT TO DO

Civics

We should figure out what technology wants and train it to be a good citizen.

MatriX

In his view, sensory pleasure, ethics, morality,
all of these are evolutionary outcroppings
that could shear away as we
evolve.

MatriX

Why didn't I think of that ..One way to evade the biological threat is just to become non-biological.

Say what?.....We want a system where computers have no need to wipe us out. We want to make sure the physical property rights [translation; our right to breathe and live] is protected.

Working for the Man [ Jeff Bezos of amazon.com in this case]

It's like Communist China under Mao; you're constantly being pushed to help the collective. If you fail to do this, you're going against your family. But if this is a family, it belongs on the Jerry Springer show."

???? SO NOW THE QUESTION BECOMES HOW TO BEST CAPTURE THE CONSUMER

FRIENDLY MUTANTS

BE A GOOD BOY AND SAY HI TO THE NICE MUTANT

Pokemon is everywhere.

It is hardly surprising tht children are so taken with this idea of 'friendly mutants', given that we live in an age of cloning, revolutions in biotechnology and invasions of genetically modified organisms.(GMO)

Some of us remember the likes of Dr. Jose Delgado in the late 1960-70s. He was a supporter of mind control as a method of achieving a "psycho-civilized society', and his associates used to tell us that the central philosophical question was no longer "What is man?" but "What kind of man are we going to manufacture?"

DOES THIS MEAN ??

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Free Trade Uber Allis

Even though it is nearly 40 years since asbestos was scientifically shown to cause cancer and it has now claimed thousands of lives, the WTO is examining a complaint by Canada, which exports 99% of its output, against France, which banned it in 1997.

"Apart from the criteria to which it refers, especially the primacy of free trade, this procedure gives established 'experts' alone the right to tell the 'truth' in the name of science. But only the victims' knowledge of the dangers of asbestos can fully reveal the human scale of the risk. And they are also the only ones not consulted in the WTO's dispute settlement procedure."

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