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He was thirty-four and had a beautiful two-bedroom apartment where he lived alone with a granite-topped kitchen island.
Now and Then” is symptomatic of the times, as Hatherley claimed, because it shows how technology will be used to rearticulate the empty promises of capitalism without coming any closer to fulfilling them. It is of a piece with Generative AI, which offers “creativity” as something to consume while helping gut the sort of economic environment that could nurture and sustain creativity as a social process.
The Beatles Did Not Take Place
Rob Horning
Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
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