Space out
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Tagged: technology
Technology and socialism, continued
Following up on Kevin Kelly’s Wired piece on digital socialism, Creative Commons guru Lawrence Lessig worries that use of the “S” word will give the open source nerds a bad rap from the foaming, freakily hard right of American politics.
Fortunately American history has many examples of socialists who I feel proud to share my political philosophy with.
Byte sized leftists
Kevin Kelly comes up with his take on techno-socialism. Thought provoking stuff, although some of us still believe in workers of the world uniting regardless of whether we have a Twitter account.
Ghost in the machine
Parts from the past, valve city, what happens when the cutting edge becomes memory lane? There is something definitely eerie about this electronics warehouse for discontinued lines of vintage components, redundant surveillance machines and obsolete technology.
It reminds me in an oblique way of a vendor I visited in London’s Brick Lane markets in the 1990s whose stock included piles of printers type and associated equipment, no doubt recovered from the basements of nearby Fleet Street when it was restructured into digital cubicles by Murdoch and co. The haunting air of the past hung like a cloud over the place.