Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    If you think about it, all sorts of fucked up things that are happening now have been portrayed as a bad thing in past media: Virtual words, virtual-fuckin’ land (not 100% sure this one is real, still really hoping its not), misuse of AI, smart houses, where everything is controlled by a remote (which relies on electricity / wi-fi), even stuff like alexa, which is listening to every word you say, at your home…

    • voxel
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      81 year ago

      what’s the point of selling “virtual land” if it’s practically unlimited anyway? (artificial scarcity?)

    • @olutukko
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      71 year ago

      Haha yeah the virtual land was true thing. it was a crypto scam if I recall correctly. Everything nowadays is just crypto scam

      • Echo Dot
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        51 year ago

        You can just call it crypto. The scam bit is implied.