English is the main language of The Soma Salon facebook group. It is a CLOSED group. The Soma Salon has 1,122 members. So it is a Medium group. 561618017293329 is the identifier of this group with Facebook. We last updated on 2015-02-15 23:56:05.
Two visions of the future continue to play out. Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' featured a society under a 'telescreen' dictatorship, where 'Victory Coffee' was served in cafés to people who yearned for free expression outside of the watchful eye of the state. It's a world in which the more extreme elements of the NSA, GCHQ and the FSB might well feel at home. In Huxley's 'Brave New World' the drug Soma is served to pacify the population - perhaps the 'dopamine effect' that commercial social networks have on us today. In both cases the new industrial revolution of technology is aiding and abetting both the powers that be, whoever they are, and those interested in freedom. As technologists what future do we choose to make? Let's discuss these and other questions in this new Salon of ideas, which will be international in nature.
This group was founded by Mike Butcher in 2014.