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Originally Posted by
Coding Coolie
@Neo,
I'm not an advocate for a Dystopian future by any stretch, but some of the most compelling stuff in that genre are William Gibson's books.
The problem is both "the far left" and "the far right"..... So, I suggest that we not try to tie the current state of dystopia and cyber disfunction to one side or the other. Using labels and putting entire groups into categories is a part of the divisiveness than helps create dystopia. I am not politicizing Spielberg because his work is "for profit" and must appeal to the masses; and many people will not read "Ready Player One", which is absolutely great; 20 times + better than the movie, but I'm only 2/3s of the way into the audiobook, so let's see how the book ends.
Regarding, the "Dystopian Future" it is already here because of advances in instant communications and the easy "hack" to spread disinformation and sew hatred and discontent between humans has already given rise to an unstable and dangerous world where cyberspace is used to influence human consciousness, mostly by bad actors, but also by for-profit commercial interests (who we can also call "bad actors") as well.
The developing situation is much worse than imaged by Orwell in 1984; which is easy to see by looking at what Facebook did with personal data and how Cambridge Analytica used massive amounts of personal data to classify, target and perform psychological operations against humans in order to manipulate people who were unwitting to the fact they were being manipuated.
When you combine this with the fact that both governments and commercial industry are totally incompetent and impotent to deal with this form of psychological operations against humanity, there is do doubt that the "dystopian s**t has hit the fan".
and...
We ain't seen nothing yet...