#dystopia — Public Fediverse posts

I mean, even if it is people, at least it's Friday!

#soylentgreen #dystopia #humor #humour

Just got a message from my county emergency alert system that perfectly encapsulates the state of the world:

"Due to the Microsoft outage, the Resiliency Commission Meeting scheduled for tonight has been canceled."

#microsoft #dystopia

"Amazon’s New Ring Security Cameras Can Fly Around Your House or Roam Around Your Business"

https://gizmodo.com/amazons-new-ring-security-cameras-can-fly-around-your-house-or-roam-around-your-business-2000837764

#broligarchy #amazon #privacy #halfLife2 #drone #dystopia #videogames #news

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@ebbot 3/3 ability to use the computer will replace reading and writing. The illiterates are those who do not adapt. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 machines, and then the %22computer freaks,%22 who are able, for example, actually to invent new possibilities and problems for microcomputers. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 computerization in daily life, at work and in friendly relations. Only a new technical culture will enable us not to be like savages transplanted into the modern world. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 no dossiers of information about the lives of average citizens. Hence it was relatively easy to evade control. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #technology #dystopia

I've finished: The Misheard World by Aliya Whiteley

I almost gave up on The Misheard World during the first section.

It felt naive about war and the horrific nature of wartime interrogation. I didn't understand why it is not categorized as YA.

I'm glad I pulled through to the second section and was continuously intrigued by the new and clever aspects revealed in each consecutive segment of the novel.

It is best to go into the novel without spoilers, I'll just say it's anti capitalist, anti-colonialist and anti war without being your run of the mill, near future dystopia.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/91b38528-9f76-431c-b6d0-1e4152f3dbb8

@bookstodon @audiofiction #ScienceFiction #dystopia #amReading #bookstodon #AudioBooks

As a result of the computer, everything now is not flux but a network of information. Every human activity is now set within a network or an intersection of many networks that are combining and will finally become a global network, it is thought, which will be the agent and expression of all possible combinations of networks. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #technology #dystopia

The interposing of the technical object between us and the world takes on another sense. Whether in the domestic, educational, medical, or commercial field, the value of consumption lies less in the actual cost of what we buy than in that of the progress of knowledge. We are moving into an economy based on the production and circulation of immaterial goods, that is, knowledge and information. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 to it. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 have always conceived of what we call culture within and on the basis of our material, social, everyday, concrete world. Technique is here, it is our environment. Can we abstract ourselves from it? That is our problem. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 technique. Technique is not responsible? No, that is true%3B people alone are responsible. But look! People have put all their passion and hope and desire into the development of techniques and techniques alone. This is the result. And at all cost we must now try to hide the brutal reality and the link between this reality and technical growth. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

In a given society, the more people talk about a value or virtue or collective project, the more this is a sign of its absence. They talk about it because the reality is the opposite. If there is much talk about liberty, it is because the people do not have it. The darker the reality, the brighter the speech. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 3/3 Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia