Neither Huxleyed, nor Orwelled: living in the Phildickian dystopia

This is a good essay and something i’ve thought about for a while but couldn’t articulate nearly as well as this. It’s an algorithm’s paradise and they care not for your fragile human feelings.

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fucking christ what is wrong with them

worse than reminding me to celebrate my dead friends birthday

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I just remembered it was on this very site i first read about that poor guy’s daughter.

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How about Doctorowian Dystopia?

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Brazil.  

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He’ll review it himself, tell you the plot with spoilers, give away the ending and then we won’t have to live through it ourselves :roll_eyes:

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Thank Heaven for small mercies

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And parts of the world described in Brunner’s Jagged Orbit also…

That’s a good one but I’m putting “janky dystopia” in my back pocket. That’s gold.

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unicornian

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