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William Wray

http://www.williamwray.com/index.html

» What's eating the eater?

Perspectives on the everyday anxiety of food consumption in late modernity

» "We live in a bubble. Everybody outside it, outside this tiny milieu, knows exactly what’s going on. Yet unless we happen to meet or know someone who lives outside it, or we have a special motivation to find out, we’ll be ignorant, no matter how “well educated” we are or if we read the Times every day front and back. Well, that will only embroider your ignorance, really. You really have to ferret out the information. When we went to Central America, I realized that a six-year-old child in El Salvador, a six-year-old, knew exactly who I was, and what I represented. I didn’t know. I was there trying to figure it out. But the child knew"

Deborah Eisenberg interviewed by Tin House

» "Today, the industrial system that the Luddites were rebelling against has led to climate change and huge losses of biodiversity, and its new technologies, such as information technology, genetic engineering and nanotechnology raise equally profound issues. Yet anyone who raises concern about the price and side-effects of new technologies is harshly condemned as a 'luddite', someone supposedly irrationally opposed to technology and progress. In fact, the Luddites were not 'luddites’ in that sense: the idea that they were opposed to all technology is a history written by the victors. In fact the Luddites opposed only technology ‘hurtful to Commonality’, ie. to the common good, rather than the narrow interests of the few. They destroyed some machines whilst leaving alone others in the same workshop. So being a luddite today means being a sceptic about the dogma of technology as progress, not about denying the real benefits of some technologies. It means insisting that the crucial decisions about which technologies are developed are made democratically, not just imposed by corporations and technocratic elites. And it means standing up for our own ideas of what progress really is"

The Luddites at 200

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» In the Future, When Robots do All Our Work, What of Capitalism?

“I don’t think book burning or laws against technology are the way to protect our jobs. But the idea of paying people even when machines could do a cheaper job is certainly not out of the realm of reality”

» TEDx Summerisle

TEDx hits remote Scottish island, presenters given ultimate gift, a martyr’s death.

» "When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank"
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