No, Dystopian Sci-Fi Isn’t Bad for Society. We Need It More Than Ever | Opinion | WIRED
mardi 26 août 2014 à 17:35Neros, le 26/08/2014 à 17:35
That much of Michael Solana’s recent op-ed in this space is undoubtedly true. With widespread surveillance, the militarization of police, the stockpiling and application of data detailing minute aspects of our lives, our lives are increasingly dominated by technology—the workings of which the average citizen doesn’t fully understand, much less has control over. Wealth gaps, global warming, and seemingly boundless intolerance give us good reason to wonder how much time humans have left before we completely annihilate ourselves—and that’s a terrifying, heartbreaking sentence to type, no matter how many times other people have typed it.
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That much of Michael Solana’s recent op-ed in this space is undoubtedly true. With widespread surveillance, the militarization of police, the stockpiling and application of data detailing minute aspects of our lives, our lives are increasingly dominated by technology—the workings of which the average citizen doesn’t fully understand, much less has control over. Wealth gaps, global warming, and seemingly boundless intolerance give us good reason to wonder how much time humans have left before we completely annihilate ourselves—and that’s a terrifying, heartbreaking sentence to type, no matter how many times other people have typed it.
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