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In recent years, an underlying sense has emerged that algorithmic culture is shallow, cheap, and degraded in the washed-out manner of a photocopy copied many times over.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The physics of bowling strike after strike
Those of us who recognize that we’ve been here before are the ones who have to call attention to where we are heading.
Digital feedback loops are helping us see that our media, technology, culture, economy, and natural world all have at least as much of a cyclical character as a linear one.
It’s not a matter of banishing linearity and progress alto
... See moreIn the end, transhumanism and other techno-utopian ideas have served to advance what Lanier calls an “antihuman approach to computation,” a digital climate in which “bits are presented as if they were alive, while humans are transient fragments.” In a way we are already living the dualistic existence that Kurzweil promised. In addition to our physi
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Where we are now, at the advent of the Permaweird, is the beginning of the Ballardian banality phase of the impact of the internet. A world of untamed but civilized horrors, capable of slow-cooking us into a sort of digital somnolence the way the protagonists of Ballard’s own stories are in a state of being slow-cooked by extrapolated late-industri
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • Disturbed Realities
Cyberpunk
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