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“…the idea of appropriate technology and alternative design: that needs to come back big time.” An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson in which (among many things) the follies of current thinking on ‘sustainable’ technology.
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“There’s this idea that they are the agents of change, the true revolutionaries, where the revolutionary change is to … make exclusive the pleasures that had potentially belonged to anyone in the past, to celebrate the upwards redistribution of wealth.” A description of the origins of the hipster, as well as thoughts on why they elicit as much hatred as they do. I am probably a little guilty of this behaviour myself at times.