progression of technologies

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Tue Jun 30 15:35:34 PDT 2015


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On 06/30/2015 05:53 PM, Juan wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:16:36 -0500 Troy Benjegerdes 
> <hozer at hozed.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Now what's wrong with the story David Brin's been selling at
>>  http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety.html
>> 
> 
> 
> apart from the spam, what's the 'theory'? The tools used by 
> nazi governments, especially the americunt nazi government are
>  going to be used to 'limit'  the power of government? Please.
> 
> "Brin consults and speaks for a wide variety of groups 
> interested in the future, ranging from Defense Department 
> agencies and the CIA to Procter & Gamble, SAP, Google and
> other major corporations. "

Brin snagged my real attention when he opened with a quote from
John Brunner's 'The Shockwave Rider.'  But I only skimmed the
relevant text on his website because it was all so familiar.  I'm
surprised I never ran into this aspect of his writing before.

A freelance Wizard follows more or less where patronage is
available; if his work product is any good it is, in and of
itself, morally neutral and will tend to enable good faith actors,
if any, to make better decisions.

That said, I personally won't work for "defense" contractors
because I do have a personal problem with mass murder and such,
and in today's political climate there's no denying that all roads
lead to coercive force in the commercial interest.

:o/





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