This comic made me laugh very hard. My ambivalence is that I’m guessing that readers of the comic will see the unelectrified third of the earth as an electrification design problem rather than a possibly resistive way of living that calls the singularity (and electrification) dream into question.
We don’t need to solve the electrification design problem. We just need to bring about the singularity and then the AI will figure out the whole electricity thing for us.
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Thursday, 18. February 2010
We don’t need to solve the electrification design problem. We just need to bring about the singularity and then the AI will figure out the whole electricity thing for us.
Monday, 17. May 2010
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