Tech Skeptics United
Confronting technology risks
Technology is a risk; risk determines what the future will be. Just one impact on the world's ecosystem by technology can be summed up in one word – coal. Technology is now, even more pervasive with the rampant development of almost every aspect of human endeavor. Technology needs to be assessed from a new and different perspective. This group is a start ...learn more
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Created: Jan 12, 2009
Updated: Nov 16, 2009
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I have real problems with Tech Fixs as the be all and end all for sustainability. It's a kind of madness that seems to end in allot of dead ends. frankpatton 9:19 pm
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Albert Einstein: "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Martin Regelsberger 2:29 am
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Technology can be an excellent tool. But I think sometimes people spend too much time on-line and not enough on life! Janine 11:33 am
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I've been reading a book by John Zerzan, Future Primitive and Other Essays. Has anyone else been read anything by him? frankpatton 11:26 am
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“Presence and representation constantly call each other into question, revealing the underlying system as infinitely fissured, and this in itself is an important contribution,” John Zersan. I wonder at times if presence can every be experienced in the representations that are concocted by our information services that technology has, is and is going to play. There is an ad that is presently running on TV by IBM, what they are saying is they are creating a ‘smarter planet’. Is that what technology is about, creating a smarter planet? frankpatton 2:47 pm
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Bill McKibben and the Technofixers' Tragic Myopia
"Hi Frank
I am not sure what is Bill upto. Here is a post of mine in another forum on climate change that you might find interesting.There is also a movie called The great global warming swindle (wi" ...more
mita commented about 1 month ago
Tiny Tech Can Leave a Big Mess
"Tiny Tech Can Leave a Big MessScientists try to clean up nanotechnology before it becomes a big business--and a big problemBy Sara Goodman Nanotechnology's image is sleek, modern and clea" ...more
frankpatton commented 7 months ago
Vertical Farming or tomatos in the sky.
"Hi friends,
This is Jim Thomas from the ETC Group. I'm writing to share a column just published in this months' Ecologist magazine about so-called 'vertical farms'. Surpr" ...more
frankpatton commented 8 months ago
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Technology the impactor. How could it be? Carbon runs wild,in the land of the free?
A zoom into the Mandelbrot Set, from 1:1 scale to a 6th-level mini-set.
IBM Smart Planet ad. @ JAPAN Subway
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Is There a Technology Resistance?
Survey Invitation By Peter Crabb The driving force behind the anthropogenic destruction of Planet Earth islocked inside our skulls. Neuroscientists are just beginning to identifythe neural networks ...more
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From credit crunch to planet crunch - or revival?
Paper and slides for the Middle East Waste Summit, May 26th-28th 2009. How to quickly take care of waste, toxics, pollution, loss of resources, loss of nature, climate change AND run a vigorous econo ...more
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Zerzan - "Maybe it's the problem, not the solut...
Introduction
Today's crisis is pervasive and deepening, accelerating its impact
on all of life in our biosphere. Many are now beginning to question the
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Are we making the best use of WiserEarth?
HOW TO BETTER UTILIZE WISEREARTH
Janine's observations after 17 months on WE
ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURE UNDERUTILIZED
The most powerful aspect of WE is its multilingual search
engine. Do we have metr ...more
The good and bad of nanotechnology
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The good and bad of nanotechnology
January 12, 2009 01:00
The tiny critters had seemed so content, swimming around under the microscope.Scientist
Shirley Tang was studying how living org ...more
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Let's try forward gear!
Sustainable development has been discussed world-wide for decades but the problems, mischievously keep getting worse. Could we have been missing something big, maybe huge? The recent documentary Blind ...more
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BlindSpot (global revival think-tank)
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Business Ethics Network
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Scope: international
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Washington Toxics Coalition
Scope: regional
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