Thought some of you might be interested in this --http://www.massivechange.com We went to go see the exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art (well, actually, we went to see the museum and found that they had removed everything in the museum so that we could see nothing else but this exhibit.)
I have some fundamental issues with the underlying assumptions that buttress these people -- namely, the idea that technology will solve the world's problems. As I mentioned to Leslie at the time, everytime I see something like this I remember the Biosphere which my dad's company built. You remember how we were going to study how to build space stations and couldn't even make the thing airtight in Arizona, with everything available to us here on earth. Anyway, when the docent goes blithering on about how the internet will spread to rural Africa when these $500 computers get distributed, when that represents 8-9 months of income and no technical support/repair exists, I go a little crazy.
That being said, there's some cool ideas.
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