Comments on: Geek Shakes Tiny Fist on Weblog. Dozens Bored. Film at Eleven. http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tayefeth http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/#comment-111 tayefeth Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:44:53 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/#comment-111 <i>New technologies don't unfold by some inherent logic. There isn't a natural or inevitable way that any given technology "wants" to be. It takes different shapes based on choices we make and battles we fight -- or don't.</i> Amen, and ditto for scientific discoveries. New technologies don’t unfold by some inherent logic. There isn’t a natural or inevitable way that any given technology “wants” to be. It takes different shapes based on choices we make and battles we fight — or don’t.

Amen, and ditto for scientific discoveries.

]]> By: mgrasso http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/#comment-110 mgrasso Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:23:36 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/#comment-110 Great post, Rob. Really good. I may have to point folks to this one. Great post, Rob. Really good. I may have to point folks to this one.

]]> By: that_cad http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/#comment-109 that_cad Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:13:20 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/#comment-109 <blockquote>If some combination of elitist disdain for politics and misguided libertarianism causes the geeks of the world to drop the ball, I'm sending a Terminator back from the future to bitch slap every one of us.</blockquote> I love that sentence. You are damn smart, Rob. Damn smart.

If some combination of elitist disdain for politics and misguided libertarianism causes the geeks of the world to drop the ball, I’m sending a Terminator back from the future to bitch slap every one of us.

I love that sentence. You are damn smart, Rob. Damn smart.

]]> By: immlass http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/#comment-108 immlass Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:44:49 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2004/01/geek-shakes-tiny-fist-on-weblog-dozens-bored-film-at-eleven/#comment-108 <i>Historians should refrain from making predictions</i> May the deity of your choice bless you for understanding that key precept. Historians should refrain from making predictions

May the deity of your choice bless you for understanding that key precept.

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