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        Date: 2024-11-22 11:10:47+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: awakening from our digitally modified slumber

"I still have a shred of optimism", Zadie Smith writes in "The Dream of
the Raised Arm."* "I still believe that a generation will arrive who
will wake us from our digitally modified slumber, at which point we will
all climb out of our individual machines, the better to observe them
from the outside, walk around them, study their mechanisms and
operations, and then decide, collectively, on some regulations regarding
their proper use. Sometimes I think that generation is already here."

If this does not bear on our job-description, should we not add it?

Comments?

Yours,
WM

*<https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/05/the-dream-of-the-raised-arm-third-
reich-of-dreams-beradt-zadie-smith/>

--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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