"When the story of the Golden Age of streaming is written – not too far away now, I think – one of the chapters will have to be about the prevalence of the dystopian thriller, the unhappy future we are destined for, and why it was that giant tech companies thought audiences would appreciate their warnings of tech-inflected nightmares to come."
I definitely consume too much dystopian content to be a fair dystopian barometer, but the sheer amount of ads being pushed my way is starting to make me feel legitimately anxious. It feels like a techno-dystopia where all of the neat and artistic elements have been extracted and then ground into dust for our corporate overlords....
“stores are now testing a security tool that lets customers use their cell phone to unlock products on the shelf. It’s essentially self-service for unlocking display cases — in exchange for a customer’s phone number.”
Time to deny communication with your peers and family under certain conditions. This is late-stage dystopian, they now openly sell psychological profiling and breach of private communication with others as a feature. #AI#enshitification#dystopia#BoringDystopia#security
> "If the law is changed, this will be a game-changer for UK retailers and other licensed premises, who can use our technology to improve compliance rates and enhance the customer experience."
George Bass: A 1993 dystopian novel imagined the world in 2024. It’s eerily accurate. Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted devastating climate change, inequality, space travel and ‘Make America great again’
"The effects of climate change are reshaping America. Those with sufficient resources retreat inside protected communities. Those with even greater resources finance an exploratory Mars mission, presumably in an attempt to one day escape Earth’s destabilization.
In the political realm, a populist presidential candidate denounces claims made by scientists, promising the electorate that he’s going to “return us to the glory, wealth, and order of the twentieth century.”
Wow !
I watched that amazing movie back in 1984... and now, 40 years later... I watch it again to remind what the futurist soldier said to Sarah Connor about the disaster to come in 40 years... it's now 2024 !!! Yikes !
The frequency and duration of ad breaks is beginning to make me feel like I’m in that black mirror episode where they had to pay to stop ads from constantly playing.
I definitely consume too much dystopian content to be a fair dystopian barometer, but the sheer amount of ads being pushed my way is starting to make me feel legitimately anxious. It feels like a techno-dystopia where all of the neat and artistic elements have been extracted and then ground into dust for our corporate overlords....