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Neither Huxleyed, nor Orwelled: living in the Phildickian dystopia

I am reminded of the “Artificial Inanity” program mentioned in Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem: “Early in the Reticulum-thousands of years ago-it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said. “Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him. “Yes-a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the we…

–Anathem, by Neal Stephenson, 2008