Good Perspective on the Role of Technology in Human Life

Kevin Kelly (co-founder of Wired Magazine) has a great take on technology and its role in human society. It's reminicent of Susan Blackmore's ideas on technological memes, or "temes" from an earlier post. I think we are in trouble when our technology moves beyond its role as a tool and we allow it to manipulate us. Note especially his nine bullet points mentioned in his short NYT article, Achieving Techno-Literacy.

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Competitive Enterprise Institute's Take on "World Car-Free Day"

A good example of a "free market environmentalist" or market utilitarian viewpoint. E.O. Wilson calls it a "cornucopian economist" view.

Protest World Car-Free Day -- Take a Drive!

There's a Tragedy of the Commons in North Raleigh!

Well, assuming you consider an aquifer a commons, and I don't see why it wouldn't be. What a mess.

North Raleigh Residents Left High and Dry