How Narrative Ate Reality in 2024
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality, Gaming, and Crypto
Rex Woodbury • Reality Privilege and Living Your Life Online
In its desperate hunger for clicks, much of the media has decided to endorse a maximalist interpretation of what AI might do. I’ve cataloged them before: disrupt every industry, eliminate poverty and need, send us off of into the stars, end death. Or, alternatively, threaten everything we’ve built, provoke dystopia, exterminate humanity. Take your ... See more
Our Dystopian AI Future Isn't Skynet. It's a "For You" Algorithm Stomping on a Human Face Forever
As the emotional texture of daily life is increasingly influenced by generative systems, people will lose access to shared context. Truth will no longer be a negotiation—it will be a feed selection. Culture fragments into narrative stacks, each optimized to reinforce a specific emotional arc: rage, hope, smugness, awe, grief, transcendence.
there was a time, not that long ago when launching a product meant running the gantlet. you needed press. you needed distribution. you needed to get on the calendar of some techcrunch reporter who would decide if you were worth covering. your launch narrative wasn’t yours. it was borrowed prestige, wrapped in corporate euphemisms, stripped of heat.
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