Just want to say here, please leave what I know or don't know out of the discussion; I know as much or as little as everyone else.
Anyway, I don't for a moment think that technology has a life of its own, and I think this viewpoint is also problematic politically. This idea has also been around for decades back through Mettrie and the Golem etc. But if you look at the demographics of the world, what you find is enormous human power and human information/weapons flows. It's the same kind of problems I find with cyborgs/prosthetics - everyone talks as if we're already always embedded in the matrix, but in fact, prosthetics serve the disabled - something that's almost never brought up. Even given privacy invasion and data-flows, it's the people on the other end who are watching us. - Alan For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
