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November 12, 2012 04:56 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GJB1AtpLLqc/ken-macleod-on-socialism-sing.html
Ken Macleod on socialism, Singularity, and the rapture of the nerds
Patrick sez, "Sci Fi writer Ken MacLeod discusses the possibility of gaining a sense of global purpose through technology, framing it against the last attempt to create a unifying ideology, Communism. ALong the way he takes in the Singularity ('the Rapture of the Nerds'), Humanity 2.0 and discovers that like Nietzsche's death of God, the [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GJB1AtpLLqc/ken-macleod-on-socialism-sing.html
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