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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social

I am not sure if you think WE will shapeshift. I believe we are irreducibly biological —though of course we can do a lot within those parameters, possibly many things we haven’t thought of yet.

aug 22, 2025, 11:43 am • 1 0

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☁ JDSBoston ☁ @jdsboston.me

Unfortunately I think Google Glass was a hokey preview of a hybrid human computer future where people graft technology onto themselves. I expect also that nanobots will be deployed instead of scalpels on the future like so many little scrubbing bubbles 😂 youtu.be/EFeEMx7ElBg?...

aug 22, 2025, 11:48 am • 1 0 • view
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☁ JDSBoston ☁ @jdsboston.me

A progressive wippenpoof shared this book with me during college back in the 90s. I thought that maybe the author WR may be dead now but not according to Claude. See Alt Text. His metaphors addressing "the cost of humans using technology" are grotesque and timeless Nerd to read it again

QUESTION Is the author of Taming the Tiger, Witold RYBCZYNSKI, now dead? FROM CLAUDE No, Witold Rybczynski is still alive. He was born on March 1, 1943, making him 82 years old as of 2025. He's a Polish-Canadian architect, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, and prolific author who continues to write about architecture, urbanism, and design. Rybczynski has had a long and distinguished career, teaching at McGill University and later at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. He's written numerous influential books on architecture and urban planning, and has been an active voice in discussions about cities, housing, and design for decades. Unless something very recent has occurred that I'm not aware of (my knowledge has a cutoff), he should still be living and may still be writing or giving lectures on architectural and urban topics. BOOK PROFILE UP ON GOOGLE Taming the Tiger: The Struggle to Control Technology https://share.google/kou4fiuK4ISE0FNb9
aug 22, 2025, 12:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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☁ JDSBoston ☁ @jdsboston.me

* whiffenpoof (typo) My apologies. It's a tiny keyword. ✌️

aug 22, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view