[AGL] ed ward reacts to the Marc Andreeson story in the New Yorker

[Donna Bobb]

I read it and stopped at the banter on robotics and knew right away what
his issue was. In case anyone missed it, a prestigious tech company is
currently designing a line of anger robots to replace humans, first within
a few well known banks, to deal with angry customers. They intend to expand
that line into other businesses as well.
I think his concern is how far America is willing to go in the Space age we
now live in and what it means for human beings. He veers off on the tangent
throughout the rest of the article displaying his concern for a hidden
agenda within our own borders and wonders how to confront it!

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:31 PM, telebob <telebob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry these things are so difficult.
> I actually have a subscription. So no paywall.
> I thought it all made very good sense.
> But everyone is free to think what they like, or not....right?
>
> Etc
>
> Bob Snark
> [image: 🐭]
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 11, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I read it - and it too didn't make much sense. I'm
> subscribed to the New Yorker's email list which
> comes every day to one's inbox. see attached
> screen grab. besides it's Ed job to put it in sharp
> focus. (watch that snarkiness, Bob!)
>
> unless you've paid a subscription to the New
> Yorker, you are limited to 10 articles per month.
> there's a way around this pay wall, but you'd
> have to ask me nice like to show you the way.
>
> unfortunately the New Yorker isn't very good these
> days. pretty much the only writer worth reading
> there is Adam Gopnick. certainly not Tad Friend
> who is just a shill for Internet businesses.
>
>
> On 6/11/2015 2:23 PM, telebob at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Read the New Yorker piece by Tad Friend if you would like Ed’s work to
> come into sharper focus.
>
>
>
>   On Jun 11, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <
> mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Bob Simmons called our attention to Ed Ward's latest
> blog. I read it earlier today and I just reread it and it
> still doesn't make any sense to me. But Ed is often
> a fun read and I recommend subscribing to the RRS
> feed of his blog "City on a Hill." see attached screen
> grab for an overview of the writing on his blog.
> A RSS feed subscription for your favorite talking heads
> is the best way to keep with what they are saying.
>
> His blog is still set up as "City on a Hill" which refers
> to the years he blogged from Montpellier France - the old
> part of the city is in fact on a hill. Previously, he blogged
> from Berlin Germany where he lived for 15 years after
> leaving Austin. As he is a major foodie, he was a happy
> camper tummy-wise whilst living in Montpellier. Those
> bloggings I believe are still on his page and they are
> quite interesting. He has less to say now because
> he is merely an American living in Amerika whereas
> as an expatriate in France, his struggles to make his
> way there and what he found are fascinating. Your
> mileage may vary. I found them fascinating because it
> reminds me of the strangeness of swimming against
> the resistance of the French culture, calculating always
> what one will do if the other does this or the other thing,
> a kind of cultural chess game. Or indeed the strangeness
> of just being a foreigner there. Whereas his writings
> nowadays issuing forth from somewhere in south Austin
> lack the edge that they had abroad.
>
>
> On 6/11/2015 1:17 PM, Bill Killeen wrote:
>
> Great article.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 11, 2015, at 2:09 PM, telebob at gmail.com wrote:
>
>
> http://wardinfrance.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-digital-overlords-speak.html
>
>
>  <Ed_Ward_RSS_feed.jpg>
>
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> <NewYorker_email.jpg>
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