The End
The End
When the end finally came, it featured not the cataclysmic roar of natural disaster, nor the sudden fiery explosion of nuclear holocaust. It engulfed mankind as gradually and imperceptibly as evolution.
The end emerged as a loss of personal motivation amidst a growing obsession with entertainment. It blossomed to a point where mankind regressed into monkey-like clans, tolerating only those who enjoyed the same apps as themselves — games created and hosted by a powerful artificial intelligence, which had ironically been man’s final achievement.
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I’ll buy you coffee and we can compare notes. I promise not to steal your ideas without permission.
He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I’ve missed this, what else have I failed to see?
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Restless Devices
— Felicia Wu Song
In a culture that demands freedom of speech and freedom of thought, why are we dooming our kids and grandkids to an environment of brainwashing rather than challenging them to think. Could it be that we have already ceded ownership of our own worldviews to the marketing wizards of big technology?
Dopamine Nation
— Anna Lembke
The “why” behind our addiction to entertainment and “how” to break free from the trance that engulfs our society.
A meeting of great minds who think alike
