Category: Technology
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we could, if we chose, put the genie back into the bottle
Andrew Dana Hudson is slowly coming round to the Butlerian jihad—or at least to its presence at the negotiating table. The Butlerian Jihad is also the answer to this claim that “the genie is out of the bottle” and we have no choice but to accept these products. There’s lots that we could do that…
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at the crest of the curve
Because we’ve been successfully convinced that we have to wait for professionals to provide us with The New Future, rather than making our own, we’re stuck in something like an endless generative loop based on A Weekend at Bernie’s.
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the space necessary for thinking is lost
I’ve been saying for a long time that the “filter bubble” thesis is precisely wrong.
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pause for a moment to reflect on the enormous significance of this
A work of science fiction is never about the time in which it is supposedly set; it’s about the time in which it is written. Which means that the question we should be asking ourselves is why this particular myth […] is the one that’s bubbling through right now.
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mister gotcha trend-lord douchebag
Trends Discourse is a genre unto itself, I have discovered lately, as I try to sustain some sort of engagement with what is arguably an adjacent profession to my own. But the self-satisfaction of its leading pundits, and the lack of reflexivity thereby implied, can make for some serious eyeroll material. Exhibit A is this…