http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2006/11/03/when-privacy-doesnt-matter/ The Common Data Project Blog Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2006/11/03/when-privacy-doesnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Happy Bandit Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:47:24 +0000 http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2006/11/03/when-privacy-doesnt-matter/#comment-2 The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology, to control and guide what technology is doing, that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine. The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can’t retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed…It is only by the rational use of technology, to control and guide what technology is doing, that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

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