From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 06:10:59 MDT
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:24:36AM -0400, Michael Wiik wrote:
> Anders Sandberg makes a handy chart:
>
> >Tech Social Economic
> > - - - Anti tech authoritarians (reactionaries)
> > - - + Anti tech conservatives (Kass, Fukyama)
> > - + - Anti tech liberals (Rifkin)
> > - + + Anti tech libertarians (small is good?)
> > + - - Pro tech authoritarians (high tech fascism,prometheans)
> > + - + Pro tech conservatives (good for business)
> > + + - Pro tech liberals (left transhumanism?)
> > + + + Pro tech libertarian ("classical" extropianism)
>
> Which is very good, but imho fails to consider the result of tech on the
> social and economic scales, from a Lessigian (?) 'Code is Law'
> perspective. The problem being that all this tech is patented or
> copyrighted, and that the tech can use the tech to enforce such at the
> level of the tech.
Note that I talked about "freedom of technology" and even discussed
freedom to tinker. One could of course complicate things by adding
an extra dimension distinguishing being pro tech from being pro
tech freedom (e.g. RIAA is pro tech but anti tech freedom) but that
would make the things the chart is intended to show opaque; rather,
it might be useful to have a separate chart for the tech freedom
issue. It might be interesting to compare the links between
people's ideas about economic and technological freedom and their
general attitude to technology.
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