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Jan. 23rd, 2008
Insert Bruce Sterling quotation here
Jan. 23rd, 2008 09:26 amAn interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
I nicked this link to the review from mmcirvin, who took exception to a section I will link to when/if I get permission
[I got permission]
mmcirvin's objection was to this:
And there’s an addictive side to this. People try to do stupid technological replacements for natural primate actions, but it doesn’t quite give them the buzz that they hoped it would. Even though it looks quite magical, the sense of accomplishment is not there. So they do it again, hoping that the activity, like a drug, will somehow satisfy the urge that it’s supposedly meant to satisfy. But it doesn’t. So they do it more and more – and they fall down a rabbit hole, pursuing a destructive and high carbon-burn activity, when they could just go out for a walk, or plant a garden, or sit down at a table with a friend and drink some coffee and talk for an hour. All of these unboosted, straight-forward primate activities are actually intensely satisfying to the totality of the mind-body that we are.
but unsurprisingly, the part where my eyes started rolling was:
Books like Progress As If Survival Mattered, Small Is Beautiful, Muddling Toward Frugality, The Integral Urban House, Design for the Real World, A Pattern Language, and so on. I had a whole shelf of those books. Their tech is now mostly obsolete, superceded by more sophisticated tech, but the ideas behind them, and the idea of appropriate technology and alternative design: that needs to come back big time. And I think it is.
It's not like I'm surprised (Robinson selected a Callenbach story for an anthology) but the Let's All be Virtuously Poor crowd drive me up the wall.
What can you find to dislike in that interview?
I nicked this link to the review from mmcirvin, who took exception to a section I will link to when/if I get permission
[I got permission]
mmcirvin's objection was to this:
And there’s an addictive side to this. People try to do stupid technological replacements for natural primate actions, but it doesn’t quite give them the buzz that they hoped it would. Even though it looks quite magical, the sense of accomplishment is not there. So they do it again, hoping that the activity, like a drug, will somehow satisfy the urge that it’s supposedly meant to satisfy. But it doesn’t. So they do it more and more – and they fall down a rabbit hole, pursuing a destructive and high carbon-burn activity, when they could just go out for a walk, or plant a garden, or sit down at a table with a friend and drink some coffee and talk for an hour. All of these unboosted, straight-forward primate activities are actually intensely satisfying to the totality of the mind-body that we are.
but unsurprisingly, the part where my eyes started rolling was:
Books like Progress As If Survival Mattered, Small Is Beautiful, Muddling Toward Frugality, The Integral Urban House, Design for the Real World, A Pattern Language, and so on. I had a whole shelf of those books. Their tech is now mostly obsolete, superceded by more sophisticated tech, but the ideas behind them, and the idea of appropriate technology and alternative design: that needs to come back big time. And I think it is.
It's not like I'm surprised (Robinson selected a Callenbach story for an anthology) but the Let's All be Virtuously Poor crowd drive me up the wall.
What can you find to dislike in that interview?
Insert Bruce Sterling quotation here
Jan. 23rd, 2008 09:26 amAn interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
I nicked this link to the review from mmcirvin, who took exception to a section I will link to when/if I get permission
[I got permission]
mmcirvin's objection was to this:
And there’s an addictive side to this. People try to do stupid technological replacements for natural primate actions, but it doesn’t quite give them the buzz that they hoped it would. Even though it looks quite magical, the sense of accomplishment is not there. So they do it again, hoping that the activity, like a drug, will somehow satisfy the urge that it’s supposedly meant to satisfy. But it doesn’t. So they do it more and more – and they fall down a rabbit hole, pursuing a destructive and high carbon-burn activity, when they could just go out for a walk, or plant a garden, or sit down at a table with a friend and drink some coffee and talk for an hour. All of these unboosted, straight-forward primate activities are actually intensely satisfying to the totality of the mind-body that we are.
but unsurprisingly, the part where my eyes started rolling was:
Books like Progress As If Survival Mattered, Small Is Beautiful, Muddling Toward Frugality, The Integral Urban House, Design for the Real World, A Pattern Language, and so on. I had a whole shelf of those books. Their tech is now mostly obsolete, superceded by more sophisticated tech, but the ideas behind them, and the idea of appropriate technology and alternative design: that needs to come back big time. And I think it is.
It's not like I'm surprised (Robinson selected a Callenbach story for an anthology) but the Let's All be Virtuously Poor crowd drive me up the wall.
What can you find to dislike in that interview?
I nicked this link to the review from mmcirvin, who took exception to a section I will link to when/if I get permission
[I got permission]
mmcirvin's objection was to this:
And there’s an addictive side to this. People try to do stupid technological replacements for natural primate actions, but it doesn’t quite give them the buzz that they hoped it would. Even though it looks quite magical, the sense of accomplishment is not there. So they do it again, hoping that the activity, like a drug, will somehow satisfy the urge that it’s supposedly meant to satisfy. But it doesn’t. So they do it more and more – and they fall down a rabbit hole, pursuing a destructive and high carbon-burn activity, when they could just go out for a walk, or plant a garden, or sit down at a table with a friend and drink some coffee and talk for an hour. All of these unboosted, straight-forward primate activities are actually intensely satisfying to the totality of the mind-body that we are.
but unsurprisingly, the part where my eyes started rolling was:
Books like Progress As If Survival Mattered, Small Is Beautiful, Muddling Toward Frugality, The Integral Urban House, Design for the Real World, A Pattern Language, and so on. I had a whole shelf of those books. Their tech is now mostly obsolete, superceded by more sophisticated tech, but the ideas behind them, and the idea of appropriate technology and alternative design: that needs to come back big time. And I think it is.
It's not like I'm surprised (Robinson selected a Callenbach story for an anthology) but the Let's All be Virtuously Poor crowd drive me up the wall.
What can you find to dislike in that interview?
Insert Bruce Sterling quotation here
Jan. 23rd, 2008 09:26 amAn interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
I nicked this link to the review from mmcirvin, who took exception to a section I will link to when/if I get permission
[I got permission]
mmcirvin's objection was to this:
And there’s an addictive side to this. People try to do stupid technological replacements for natural primate actions, but it doesn’t quite give them the buzz that they hoped it would. Even though it looks quite magical, the sense of accomplishment is not there. So they do it again, hoping that the activity, like a drug, will somehow satisfy the urge that it’s supposedly meant to satisfy. But it doesn’t. So they do it more and more – and they fall down a rabbit hole, pursuing a destructive and high carbon-burn activity, when they could just go out for a walk, or plant a garden, or sit down at a table with a friend and drink some coffee and talk for an hour. All of these unboosted, straight-forward primate activities are actually intensely satisfying to the totality of the mind-body that we are.
but unsurprisingly, the part where my eyes started rolling was:
Books like Progress As If Survival Mattered, Small Is Beautiful, Muddling Toward Frugality, The Integral Urban House, Design for the Real World, A Pattern Language, and so on. I had a whole shelf of those books. Their tech is now mostly obsolete, superceded by more sophisticated tech, but the ideas behind them, and the idea of appropriate technology and alternative design: that needs to come back big time. And I think it is.
It's not like I'm surprised (Robinson selected a Callenbach story for an anthology) but the Let's All be Virtuously Poor crowd drive me up the wall.
What can you find to dislike in that interview?
I nicked this link to the review from mmcirvin, who took exception to a section I will link to when/if I get permission
[I got permission]
mmcirvin's objection was to this:
And there’s an addictive side to this. People try to do stupid technological replacements for natural primate actions, but it doesn’t quite give them the buzz that they hoped it would. Even though it looks quite magical, the sense of accomplishment is not there. So they do it again, hoping that the activity, like a drug, will somehow satisfy the urge that it’s supposedly meant to satisfy. But it doesn’t. So they do it more and more – and they fall down a rabbit hole, pursuing a destructive and high carbon-burn activity, when they could just go out for a walk, or plant a garden, or sit down at a table with a friend and drink some coffee and talk for an hour. All of these unboosted, straight-forward primate activities are actually intensely satisfying to the totality of the mind-body that we are.
but unsurprisingly, the part where my eyes started rolling was:
Books like Progress As If Survival Mattered, Small Is Beautiful, Muddling Toward Frugality, The Integral Urban House, Design for the Real World, A Pattern Language, and so on. I had a whole shelf of those books. Their tech is now mostly obsolete, superceded by more sophisticated tech, but the ideas behind them, and the idea of appropriate technology and alternative design: that needs to come back big time. And I think it is.
It's not like I'm surprised (Robinson selected a Callenbach story for an anthology) but the Let's All be Virtuously Poor crowd drive me up the wall.
What can you find to dislike in that interview?
This may not bode well
Jan. 23rd, 2008 10:41 amFrom Jerry Pournelle's blog:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
10 PM
Well, I spent the day in little tubes that make loud noises. I also have a cold that closed my nasal passages the instant I became horizontal.
The upshot is that I've got something growing in my head, and they don't really want to bore a hole in that spot to get a sample. They're going to try some other tests. Including a bone marrow sample. I am certainly learning more about modern medicine than I really wanted to know.
I don't know what my odds are now. They are certainly lower than the 95:5 we thought earlier. They will do more tests.
[I feel like I need to put a little disclaimer here that other people's possible brain tumors, even people who you might strongly disagree with, aren't funny]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
10 PM
Well, I spent the day in little tubes that make loud noises. I also have a cold that closed my nasal passages the instant I became horizontal.
The upshot is that I've got something growing in my head, and they don't really want to bore a hole in that spot to get a sample. They're going to try some other tests. Including a bone marrow sample. I am certainly learning more about modern medicine than I really wanted to know.
I don't know what my odds are now. They are certainly lower than the 95:5 we thought earlier. They will do more tests.
[I feel like I need to put a little disclaimer here that other people's possible brain tumors, even people who you might strongly disagree with, aren't funny]
This may not bode well
Jan. 23rd, 2008 10:41 amFrom Jerry Pournelle's blog:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
10 PM
Well, I spent the day in little tubes that make loud noises. I also have a cold that closed my nasal passages the instant I became horizontal.
The upshot is that I've got something growing in my head, and they don't really want to bore a hole in that spot to get a sample. They're going to try some other tests. Including a bone marrow sample. I am certainly learning more about modern medicine than I really wanted to know.
I don't know what my odds are now. They are certainly lower than the 95:5 we thought earlier. They will do more tests.
[I feel like I need to put a little disclaimer here that other people's possible brain tumors, even people who you might strongly disagree with, aren't funny]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
10 PM
Well, I spent the day in little tubes that make loud noises. I also have a cold that closed my nasal passages the instant I became horizontal.
The upshot is that I've got something growing in my head, and they don't really want to bore a hole in that spot to get a sample. They're going to try some other tests. Including a bone marrow sample. I am certainly learning more about modern medicine than I really wanted to know.
I don't know what my odds are now. They are certainly lower than the 95:5 we thought earlier. They will do more tests.
[I feel like I need to put a little disclaimer here that other people's possible brain tumors, even people who you might strongly disagree with, aren't funny]
This may not bode well
Jan. 23rd, 2008 10:41 amFrom Jerry Pournelle's blog:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
10 PM
Well, I spent the day in little tubes that make loud noises. I also have a cold that closed my nasal passages the instant I became horizontal.
The upshot is that I've got something growing in my head, and they don't really want to bore a hole in that spot to get a sample. They're going to try some other tests. Including a bone marrow sample. I am certainly learning more about modern medicine than I really wanted to know.
I don't know what my odds are now. They are certainly lower than the 95:5 we thought earlier. They will do more tests.
[I feel like I need to put a little disclaimer here that other people's possible brain tumors, even people who you might strongly disagree with, aren't funny]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
10 PM
Well, I spent the day in little tubes that make loud noises. I also have a cold that closed my nasal passages the instant I became horizontal.
The upshot is that I've got something growing in my head, and they don't really want to bore a hole in that spot to get a sample. They're going to try some other tests. Including a bone marrow sample. I am certainly learning more about modern medicine than I really wanted to know.
I don't know what my odds are now. They are certainly lower than the 95:5 we thought earlier. They will do more tests.
[I feel like I need to put a little disclaimer here that other people's possible brain tumors, even people who you might strongly disagree with, aren't funny]