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E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Dystopian techno-futurism from 1909!  Eerie and vivid.  Enjoy. http://www.tcnj.edu/~miranda/classes/topics/reading/forester.html “Beware of first- hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. “First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by life and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and [...]

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Shaping the Future

Monday, May 14, 2007

 A fascinating glimpse over on Charlie’s Diary of how new technologies will change the lives of our descendants more profoundly than advances like the Internet changed ours.  Choice excerpts, with pithy commentary, follow. You know something? Keeping track of those quaint old laws about personal privacy is going to be really important. Because in countries [...]

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