Agreed. Also, it has been thirty years since I read “The Diamond Age,” but as I recall the main characters in the “Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer” were not bots, they were real-time presentations of a human “ractor” transmitted from a distant studio. Gibson’s “Neuromancer” is a more direct take on AI and (an imaginary) society’s attempts at having them without being consumed by them.
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I feel ya!
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The dominant content producers are rightists devoted to publishing and spreading outright lies. Halloween’s nightmare where nobody can afford eggs, has become Black Friday’s 3.4% increase in sales. Almost overnight.
Nothing changed, except with the election of The Rump, all the rightist bots’ bitching olympics came to a halt. This was the plan to cure inflation all along.
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The Romans used bread and circuses (I.e. Gladiators battling to the death with each other or lions) to entertain the mob.
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David Zaslav, perhaps the worst person in the world, supports Trump a lot. He knows that 50,000 channels of crap are not the answer, but still he needs a great Ameristan Leni Riefenstahl to sell the New Regime.
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Nice blog.
Thanks for sharing.
same here…in my long life time…if nothing else, i have learned it not what people say, its what they do…anyone can ramble on about whatever suits their fancy, at that time, lies are not ‘misinformation’ they are are just plain old lies.
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I’ve long loved that Borges story: a near-infinite library containing every possible book that could be written in 500 pages, explored by acolytes searching futilely among them for the single book that would show the reason of their own life.
It has long struck me that there would only be one possible way to index such a library. In order to find a book there, you would have to write the book. Only by completely typing each letter in the volume would you have an index key sufficiently detailed to find the book. Thus I took from it a much less hopeless attitude than Borges did: You can have the book explaining the meaning of your own life — but only if you write it yourself. Thus is purpose returned to the one seeking.
Reminds me of Borges’ other invention, a map the size of the territory it shows.
@bobatkinson Blindness was written by Saramago, but Borges was indeed blind of course.
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