I see it more like it’s Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. The Internet is Soma and we’re all addicted. Trading our data (our Collective Digitised Souls) CDS for a chance at fame, or clout, or genuine human connection while they strip-mine our planet for resources and commit ecocide.
“Stuart McMillen’s webcomic adapts (and updates) Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World was ultimately more accurate than the one proposed by George Orwell in 1984.”
So, I was correct.
Well I’ll not get in a dystopia measuring competition with you.
1984 wasn’t intended as a manual
I see it more like it’s Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. The Internet is Soma and we’re all addicted. Trading our data (our Collective Digitised Souls) CDS for a chance at fame, or clout, or genuine human connection while they strip-mine our planet for resources and commit ecocide.
We’re having both!
https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webcomic-2/
“Stuart McMillen’s webcomic adapts (and updates) Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World was ultimately more accurate than the one proposed by George Orwell in 1984.”
So, I was correct.
Well I’ll not get in a dystopia measuring competition with you.
Someone smarter than me once said we are in 1984 at work and in Brave New World in our free time