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The Supreme Court refused Monday to block a massive asbestos trial in West Virginia.Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist did not comment in turning down requests from Mobil Corp. and other large companies that stand to lose millions if found liable in the trial scheduled for Sept. 23 in a West Virginia court.The trial will combine the cases of some 8,000 people who claim asbestos exposure against 250 companies. The companies are employers, building owners, manufacturers and others.Over the summer, two companies asked the Supreme Cou
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There a meme haunting the internet, and it called techno-optimism. It the belief that we can solve all our problems, from climate change to government surveillance, using technology. I reject this idea. My hope for the future comes from geology, and a belief that one day we will invent machines that are environmental rather than technological. Image by Travis Odgers The problem isn ;t so much technology, nor is it optimism about the future. The problem is that public discussions of both center almost exclusively on the computer industry and its attendant markets. Techno-optimism is a catch-all term that encompasses a lot of contemporary thinking about how the internet is changing everything in our lives, but most especially the economy. A good example is Jaron Lanier new book, Who Owns the Future , about how the web economy could liberate us all, if only we could wrest it away from greedy corporations. The idea is that technology is a great democratizer, able to unleash the productive potential of the 99 percent. There a long history of irrational exuberance in the tech industry. Lanier is followi
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