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

[Donna Bobb]

I might have. Apologies for the confusion.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <
mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:

>  You are critiquing the Ted Friend piece in the New Yorker,
> not Ed Ward's response, right? Ed in his posting today
> said he "found it rocky enough reading that it took me three
> nights to plow through it."
>
> as for Mr Andreesen, he may be rich as Croesus
> (may he choke on it!) but this is what he sees
> in the mirror in the morning.
>
> On 6/11/2015 6:25 PM, Donna Bobb wrote:
>
> 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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