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profsummergigyesterday at 10:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

Computers could hardly do anything back then. Mostly backend data processing.

Yet this speech could have been written today.

Intriguing.


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layer8yesterday at 11:10 PM

Neuromancer was published only half a year later.

Or take The Machine Stops from 1909.

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ttoinouyesterday at 10:40 PM

Similar to Guy Debord in The Society of Spectacle, what he wrote witnessing the beginning of TV and mass cinema applies for us in 2025, 100 fold