To an extent I think you're right here, but large parts of the SF culture really has gone through extended periods of "wouldn't it be great if we could go and live in tin cans around Ceres/migrate into computers/evolve into things capable of breathing fart gas".
I don't have any confidence that the Tor commissioning editors didn't commission someone from the lunatic nutjob fringe to raise controversy (and the article's full of dogwhistles), and I didn't look up $random_person beforehand, but after all that, you're probably right and it's an attempt at satire.
I'm not going to regret explicating it for the even-harder-of-noticing than I am, though!
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Date: 2009-02-03 03:45 pm (UTC)I don't have any confidence that the Tor commissioning editors didn't commission someone from the lunatic nutjob fringe to raise controversy (and the article's full of dogwhistles), and I didn't look up $random_person beforehand, but after all that, you're probably right and it's an attempt at satire.
I'm not going to regret explicating it for the even-harder-of-noticing than I am, though!