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By: Phoenix Insurgent

Phoenix Insurgent — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:22:11 +0000

Relevent in the news today:
’The lab is also, Moss boasts, “clearly the coolest place on the planet” to work, for those interested in how technology can change society. Its 30-plus research groups have names like Biomechatronics (how technology can enhance physical abilities), Lifelong Kindergarten (creative ways to learn), and Smart Cities (how buildings can respond more intelligently to inhabitants). Most of the lab’s $32 million yearly budget comes from corporate sponsors ranging from the expected — tech giants such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Cisco Systems — to the less obvious, such as Campbell Soup, Philip Morris, and The LEGO Group, maker of LEGO toys.
One of Moss’s top priorities is to make sure these 80 or so corporate sponsors feel they benefit from the work of the lab. In the go-go days of the late 1990s tech boom, companies could simply decide, “This is cool. We’re going to put money behind it,” Moss says. But today, “You have to be able to justify that [spending] as a good investment that has a return.“‘
300 geniuses call him boss
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0306/p13s01-stct.html

By: Phoenix Insurgent

Phoenix Insurgent — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:47:11 +0000

Also, if I may quickly offer one more example from the past, consider the patrol wagon and signal system instituted between the 1880’s and 1900. Initially, this system, which utilized telegraph technology, was only available to police and rich people (who could rent them for their homes and shops, interestingly). Through it, police patrols could really call for back up for the first time (before this police had to use whistles or bells, which had obvious limitations in terms of range and the number of other officers that could potentially deploy in response). And with the combination of the patrol wagon, they could deploy forces quickly and make mass arrests easily and routinely for the first time. Interestingly, this technology didn’t reduce the need for police — in fact police force size jumped as a result because the new technology required more police to operate and maintain it.
As an aside, we’re seeing the same thing now with surveillance cameras, which are not reducing police ranks the slightest while definitely (and exponentially) increasing the power of the police to enforce and deter crime.
Returning to the main point, the political context of this development (again, subsidized by the state), was the rising labor movement of the time. Following on the Great Upheaval of 1877, labor, which had been violently put down, rose up again during the economic collapses of the 1880’s. These technologies were used to great effect to attack the mobilized working class in Chicago, for instance, but many other places as well.
And, so now, yes telephones are everywhere. And wi-fi (like the municipal kind sweeping the nation) vastly increases the investigative, response and surveillance powers of the police. So not just rich people can call the police these days. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? For a workers movement, it is a bad thing because more police power means more power for the capitalists. And more power for the capitalist means more exploitation for workers.

By: Phoenix Insurgent

Phoenix Insurgent — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:30:32 +0000

Of course, the point is that technology doesn’t offer equal amounts of good and bad. Very often, it offers almost all bad. Nor does it level the playing field, either, despite what Samuel Colt’s boosters may suggest. Nor does it make our lives necessarily easier, better or give us more freedom to act. Does a surveillance state give us more freedom? Does a nuclear weapon enhance everyone’s life? Does the rifle I own make me equal to a SWAT team barging into my house? Even if we all have the SAME rifle it doesn’t do that!
Sure, there are some benefits, but the view that it all comes down to the individual is naive and, I think, ideological. The evidence is quite to the contrary. Just where is this individual participation and choice that you are talking about. If tech enhances choices, then it would be obvious. And yet, the people who really make the choices about technological research and applications are hardly accountable at all.
One needs to take a wider view of technology’s effects and who has control over it to understand how it works. Just because DoD made the highways doesn’t mean that the highways are universally good. After all, tens of thousands of people die every year on them and the shit they pump into the air causes cancers and global warming.
And that’s not to mention the fact that moving armies and weapons around the country may not, in fact, be a good thing, no matter how easy it makes it for the rest of us to move around the country. Said another way, the freedom to drive 85 miles per hour from New York to Phoenix might not, in the end, balance out the oppressive power of a more flexible military apparatus.
Plus, the resources to build those highways came because the US had the power to extract wealth from other countries. The existence of state subsidized highways in the US is directly related to the lack of them elsewhere. So, are highways in the US good for people in Africa, for instance?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:47:48 +0000

Of course, Tom. Whether we're clubbing someone with a rock, or shooting them with a gun, it's ultimately our responsibility. Technology doesn't take away our choice to be as good, or as bad, as we want. All it does is give us more freedom to act, and make our lives easier. Technology is empowering. How we choose to use it is our decision. Is that good or bad? Well, that's for philosophers to discuss. That's a question of spirituality. What is "good"? Please ask Socrates that one, because it's a bit outside the bounds of this discussion. But I'm pretty sure a robot dog isn't going to call down the wrath of the Almighty. I don't remember the Commandment that said "Thou shalt not build a shopping cart with legs."

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:11:10 +0000

“Technology improves life for everyone. I don’t live in a cave, like my ancestors did. The Ford F-150 that sits in my driveway allows me to travel at speeds unimagined just over a century ago. I’m sending data across the world at a billion bits a second, communicating with people all over the world, reading the insane ramblings of a lunatic at my whim. Hooray, internet. Thanks, US military, for linking together defense computers!“
When you say, improves life, what do you mean? How do you measure quality of life? Live longer? Die Richer?
Do you mean you can travel faster, transer bilions of bits faster, etc etc? What happens when you can travel at the speed of light and transfer data instantly? How do you imporve your life then?
All I was trying to say in my earlier post is, how can we say we are better off now, than we were with just stone tools and apples? (sans ipod)
And also anything we develop that can be used to do good things, like lasers and roads. Can also be used to do bad things, like taking down planes and car accidents. Its not the technology at fault, but us as human beings. Now im starting to get a bit pesimistic, and I don’t like it.
So maybe il go watch the men fighting over who gets to take a leak first