[AngryJawa]

It appears that Mr. Sterling has a bit of an agenda, eh?

[Charles Henrickson]

11. Traffic-monitoring cameras that automatically ticket motorists.

[eniapmot]

Imagine...all the people....woowoo...

[Uncle Miltie]

I vote for fax machines.

[harpseal]

Where to start?

Nuclear weapons. There ultimate utility may be as a means of protecting the planet from a rouge space object.

Prisons rehabilitation does not work and we are unwilling to execute peopel for attempted murder and theft etc.

[Charles Henrickson]

E-spam, pop-up ads, telemarketing.

[EggsAckley]

Geeze........maybe this guy should move to some jungle or something. He certainly doesn't like living on MY planet.

[tet68]

Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, journalist, and cultural critic based in Austin, Texas.

Also complete idiot.

[xzins]

Light bulbs and cosmetic implants sort of make sense.

The rest were just that guy's rant.

A liberal rant.

[TonyInOhio]

This guy sounds like a Unabomber-in-Training.

[FreedomCalls]

11. Technology writers who pander to the world's lefist notions of feel-good suggestions without offering real-world solutions instead.

[CholeraJoe]

Sterling appears to be what I would call a watermelon. Green on the outside, red on the inside.

[Charles Henrickson]

Those green boards behind home plate that have advertisements electronically displayed on them. You can't watch the pitcher-batter shot without seeing the ad.

[ContemptofCourt]

Not to get in on his agenda, but he does have a point with coal based power, the internal combustion engine and lightbulbs...this is old technology, and I can see how a techie would poo-poo such old technology. In fact, it is rather suprising that we still place so much reliance on such old technology.

[beezdotcom]

As an MIT alum, I'm embarrassed that a magazine with any ties to my alma mater would publish this crap. (Not that MIT was ever particularly conservative, but it still galls me.) This guy is the poster child for the old baby/bathwater axiom.

[ericthecurdog]

Well, cumbi-f'ing-ya...

What a bunch of hooey.

That said, I have eliminated incandescent lights from my home, and I am very pleased with the results. My utilities bill is rock steady at $30 per month.

[Alouette]

So this elitist wants everyone else to give up coal power and the internal-combustion engine, but he gets to keep his SUV and his 5000-sq.-ft California home.

[Publius6961]

Didn't we go through all this about a monthe ago?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

100% of all critics of land mines do not have there asses on the 38th parallel facing infiltration by lunatic minions of Beloved Leader Jr.

100% of all US critics of Hiroshima were not in uniform in the Pacific in 1945. Nuclear weapons prevented a major third world war in the 20th century by scaring the bejesus out of world leaders. Anyone who thinks Stalin wouldn't have invade Western Europe sometime shortly after 1945, absent nuclear weapons, probably believes Ed Asner when he promises to move to France.

[Zathras]

Prisons are technology?