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The irony of someone getting onto a computer to warn us about technology
is palpable. It takes a few minutes to realize some of these people really
aren't joking. Technology-based secret societies represent on of the oldest
types of secret societies, but more importantly, they represent the saddest.
Science is always something that has had to be protected from people that
fear their well-appreciated skills and abilities won't have any place in the
brave new world that, say, a steam drill would create. Frankenstein was
a tragedy, not because the monster wasn't completely human, but because
the doctor was turned into a monster himself by a world that had become
resigned to its fate. And so today, as we start to unravel the mysteries
of intelligence and we continue to automate more mundane tasks, we have more
and more stories about time travellers, sentient "ghosts in the machine",
and of course, synthetic people made out of everything from organic parts
to galvanized steel. Because, you see, the tools aren't for your job; they
want your job.
And so, I give you a dumb page
with some things made by technophobic hillbillies that got over their fears
and bought computers (or hired computer people) to bring you the truth about
how things we can't make out of crap in our front lawn and glue are bad.
You can click on the links, but you can't teach them to love.
Little orphan Annie's dark, dark prophecy
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