By the time we stopped receiving AOL discs in the mail, they had already made everyone's automated echo chambers.
Back when we used to have to dial up with a telephone line directly into the server computer, even then the servers were full of government actors.
The Web has always been meant to catch men.
Edit, I feel like expanding on a hypothetical version of its genesis: There's a lot of people turning criminal lately, and it's hard on the police. What makes a person turn criminal? They must be on the edge of snapping and then some straw breaks the camel's back and they lose it.
Well what if we could predict when and where someone would snap? Yes but how? Well, we'd simply need to make sure we know who and where a person is, and then administer a straw and see if it breaks the camel's back. If they go postal, we'll already be ready to respond. We'll weed out the psychos and society will be healed and closer to perfection.
Then hand the project over to an evil person who keeps cranking up the Tracking Accuracy and Straw Size & Frequency until we eventually get the police literally protecting the Uvalde shooter from being interrupted while he snaps.
By the time we stopped receiving AOL discs in the mail, they had already made everyone's automated echo chambers.
Back when we used to have to dial up with a telephone line directly into the server computer, even then the servers were full of government actors.
The Web has always been meant to catch men.
Edit, I feel like expanding on a hypothetical version of its genesis: There's a lot of people turning criminal lately, and it's hard on the police. What makes a person turn criminal? They must be on the edge of snapping and then some straw breaks the camel's back and they lose it.
Well what if we could predict when and where someone would snap? Yes but how? Well, we'd simply need to make sure we know who and where a person is, and then administer a straw and see if it breaks the camel's back. If they go postal, we'll already be ready to respond. We'll weed out the psychos and society will be healed and closer to perfection.
Then hand the project over to an evil person who keeps cranking up the Tracking Accuracy and Straw Size & Frequency until we eventually get the police literally protecting the Uvalde shooter from being interrupted while he snaps.
By the time we stopped receiving AOL discs in the mail, they had already made everyone's automated echo chambers.
Back when we used to have to dial up with a telephone line directly into the server computer, even then the servers were full of government actors.
The Web has always been meant to catch men.