Saturday, July 02, 2005

Test Driving Linux — by David Brickner

Nonfiction
Reviewed by Michael Pastore

Years before computers ignited the Information Revolution, Marshall McCluhan warned: "All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."

And yet one wonders if Media should shoulder all the blame. Is it possible that the true fault lies with technology and media in the wrong hands? ... Satish Kumar writes: "I am not against technology. But I am against megatechnology. Technology for profit is a wrong use of technology."

What would technology not for profit look like? ...
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