Sátiras e Magias

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Fabs linkou um post sobre absurdos que já aconteciam como sátira. E que agora, se repetem na "vida real" como a própria sátira. Bem distante da apropriação das tecnologias para usos socioambientais, ou ainda, para a experimentação pura de tentativas e erros. Só os produto$ importam:

Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn’t give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That’s a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends - said [MPAA spokesman] Glickman.

Mas enquanto isso, sobreviventes desviantes ainda pensam em tecnologias como liberdade, criatividade, magia...

Fabi Borges, na lista submidialogias, compartilhou o texto de Pedro Soler sobre Tecnomagias:

Technology is the concretisation of the visions of shamans and magicians. Everything we use today was accomplished, imagined or dreamed, in ancient times. Perhaps it is only the future that has resisted, so far, the capacities of technology – although the capacity of super computers to model complex phenomena brings us closer to that most archetypal of shamanic capacities.