Brian McAndrews wrote:
[snip]
Progress Without People
By: Russell Mokhiber
January 4, 1999
MIT Professor Noam Chomsky makes the point that if you serve power, power
rewards
Ray,
I've been lurking on future-work for years, and love and often agree with
your thought provoking and passionate posts. In regards to this one,
though, I would like to point our that there is no such thing as a "typical
16 year old adolescent", any more than there is such thing as a
Tom,
Thanks for your compliments. I would like to point out a
couple of things from my own discipline. There is such a thing
as stylistic convention. French Style is a coherency that is
different from German or Italian. Before the abuse of "convention"
and its subversion into a primitive
The following book review presents another view (and saves me a helluva
lot of typing!).
Brian McAndrews
Computer Power and Human Reason
by Joseph Weizenbaum
San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman
1976
REVIEWED BY:
A few veterans of this list will remember me trying to get a book club
started. I suggested reading David Noble's Progress Without People: In
Defense of Luddism. Noble argues that luddites smashed machines because
their children were starving. Would you do likewise? I heard a women on
T.V. last
Brian McAndrews wrote:
The following book review presents another view (and saves me a helluva
lot of typing!).
Brian McAndrews
Computer Power and Human Reason
by Joseph Weizenbaum
San Francisco, CA:
Hi Brad,
As usual I find your analysis mostly cogent and challenging. Perhaps you
can help me here:
When the word
"transcendental" is as trendy as "algorithmic" there
will be some hope for a future.
I'm familiar with the "Transcendentalist" writers including Emerson and
Thoreau. What
Steve Kurtz wrote:
Hi Brad,
As usual I find your analysis mostly cogent and challenging. Perhaps you
can help me here:
When the word
"transcendental" is as trendy as "algorithmic" there
will be some hope for a future.
I'm familiar with the "Transcendentalist" writers including
Michael Gurstein wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Podobnik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 12:17 PM
Subject: NYT on the Future
You may find this editorial from the New York Times interesting.
It addresses
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Podobnik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 12:17 PM
Subject: NYT on the Future
You may find this editorial from the New York Times interesting.
It addresses Marxism, Gandhi, and forecasts of
The NYT wrote:
In other words, the 21st century will have its Marx. This next great
challenger of the governing ideological paradigm, this hypothetical
cyber-Marx, is one of our children or grandchildren or
great-grandchildren, and he or she could appear in Shandong Province
or Cairo or
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