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* Transhumanism vs. Human Conservatism: [[No Transhumanism Allowed|Should people be allowed to augment themselves]], or will that bring about social downfall?
* The individual vs. the corporation vs. the State
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: is order the same thing as peace and law, or is order a want invented by war and corrupt fascists?
* Futility vs. Cautious Optimism
* What is the effect of the boss' and HR's use of the computer, in particular operations research and process management techniques and project management techniques? Has the cybernetic takeover already happened and turned the boss into a figurehead for his computer? Does technology make work more menial and life more boring?
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* Left wing politics versus the Cold War being long gone
* [[Gaia's Lament]], technological and social innovation
* Survivalism vs. the end of the world eg. is a guy on the internet forum that has five boxes of canned mushrooms and, fifty cans of peas, a chain-lock and puts a knife on the end of the stick that he found in the park going too far, or not far enough?
* Use of advanced technology by those in abject poverty eg. budget cell phones in Somalia (the telecom industry of which boomed since Barre fell and while there was no longer any functioning State, by the way)
* What relationship does technology have with creativity and expression? Eg, should singers with record deals use pitch correction, also known as auto-tune? Should we use a store-bought, copyrighted, official music CD with an electric violin with lots of other electro-phones, or should we use the Youtube song cover an unknown, but clearly proficient singer made using a cheap webcam, a banjo and the help of her friend on the acoustic violin? Should we rock out to Rage Against the Machine, Krio de Morto, or Othernoises? Should we go to an un-amplified classical violin session in person, or should we stay home and watch X-Factor on cable? If we want to go to an un-amplified classical violin session, should we ask Cortana to suggest one, or should we bicycle to the town square and look for posters, and will the content of the violin session be affected by this choice?
* Machine readable language vs. natural language
* COBOL, FORTRAN, C/C++/Microsoft Visual C# vs. Haskell, Gallina, Erlang, Eiffel and RavenSPARK
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