Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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Play Don’t Work in a Pragmatic-Utopian High-Tech Enterprise

April 15th, 2010 in Category: Karl Marx, Utopian High Tech Enterprise

As a libertarian thinker, I believe that capitalism has brought great benefits in economic wealth, individual freedom, science and technology, education, and democracy. As someone sensitive to social inequality and alienation, I have also taken seriously the views of capitalism's critics, whether liberal, anarchist, or Marxist.
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Questions for the Utopian High-Tech Enterprise

April 14th, 2010 in Category: Utopian High Tech Enterprise

Who am I? Who are you? Why are we here? Do we have shared dreams? What is it to be creative? What is friendship? What is love? What is passion? What is dance? What is song? Why do I have fears and anxieties? Why is there violence and war? How do we pursue knowledge and true epistemological flexibility?
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Technology Startup Company (story)

April 13th, 2010 in Category: American Slang, Creative Writing, Utopian High Tech Enterprise

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