Bill Thompson’s article on the O’Reilly Etech hive mind is killer, and a must-read for anyone who’s interested in the intersection of politics and technology. Here’s a teaser:
It seems that the A-list may soon have their first real-world political success, with their campaign to deregulate radio spectrum in the US – a move that uses a poor technological argument to push forward an assertion about the most efficient ways to allocate resources that would be remarkably familiar to any Reagan-style voodoo economists left over from the 1980s (7).
“Voodoo technology” is a completely apt description of David Weinberger’s recent work, which is generally echoed uncritically by the fellow tech-topians who headlined Etech.