ALSO, ON CORY DOCTOROW
I SPENT SPRING BREAK THINKING ABOUT THE SINGULARITY
March 28, 2009ONE MORE
March 28, 2009Cory Doctorow gave the best speech hands down at the Singularity Summit a few years ago. But he isn’t really talking about the singularity; its pretty clear he just sees it as a beacon that attracts the similarly technologically inclined, perhaps as a means to form an interest group that takes digital rights seriously. He specifically mentions looking for a word to unite the ‘movement’.
As it happens, one of my favorite discussions on this blog was about this very question. Anyone have any new ideas? I think the transhumanist terms of the singularity aren’t very good for what Cory is after; if we are inseparably twined with technology it doesn’t make for a good object of devotion.
I have grown less partial to “artifaithful” over time.
