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Thank you BoR. I enjoyed listening to this episode of your podcast.

One of the themes you discuss - and on which I agree with your view - is how these technological visions incorporate a denial /...

I am reading a book titled In the Shadow of the Machine: The Prehistory of the Computer and the Evolution of Consciousness by Jeremy Naydler.

I first heard about it in this podcast conversation...

This is as succinct a summary of the peculiar tenets of our technocracy as I have seen. Thought-provoking.

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David Bowie on the Internet:

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He says some thought provoking things:

“Is there life on Mars? Yes, it’s just landed here.”

“I’m talking about the actual context and the...

These two videos discuss alienation from a Marxist economic analysis perspective. David Harvey explores some ideas in Marx's early thought on the problem of alienation and then goes into a review of...

(Rather surprisingly,) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson uses his UN general assembly speech to warn of digital authoritarianism.


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This is a very interesting series of photographs taken of day to day situations “without” the handheld device that might normally be included.

These photos really highlight the way living in a...

Today I listened to a newish interview with Edward Snowden with the German publication DeutschlandFunk:



Here:...

(Part 1 is here and part 2 is here)

Part 3


From: https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/cold-evil-technology-and-modern-ethics/

(Part 1 is here)

Part 2


From: https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/cold-evil-technology-and-modern-ethics/

Part 3 in the next post.

This speech, given in 2000 by Andrew Kimbell, addresses some of the ethical issues and problems with technology and the technosphere.

He distinguishes between the “hot evil”, which is typically...

A musical interlude after all that reading: The Police from their Ghost in the Machine album, released in 1981.

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The concept of Technocracy received some focus in the 1930s (and perhaps its first formalisation). This excerpt from a Polish blog post (auto-translated by Yandex translate) describes the...

Thank you gs_powered. I agree that technology for some is a distraction. Now that it seems so much more physically present and pervasive, it becomes difficult to ignore its impact and effects.

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This thread is to explore what it is to be human in our technocracy. Do we shape our technology or does it shape us?

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“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to...