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Wow, that was really boring. Replace everything with "Microsoft", and this could have been written 15 years ago. Use "IBM", and it would have been 25 years ag
by ynniv 17y ago
Wow, that was really boring. Replace everything with "Microsoft", and this could have been written 15 years ago. Use "IBM", and it would have been 25 years ago. There are many great techno-dystopian stories, but this is a rank amateur attempt. The print version would have red pen in the margins: character development? story arc? unnecessary detail!
If you liked this story, you are required to have read Snow Crash.
- swombat 17y agoNot really... the focus on advertising is much more Google-specific. The real clunker in this story is that with such advanced technology (mostly AI-complete, as others have pointed out), humans are largely irrelevant, and therefore so is advertising as well as any work we might wish to do. The only way to "fix" this would, I suppose, be to posit a truly symbiotic AI relationship, where these strong AIs can only exist with constant interaction with human thought processes. However, if that was the case, the author should really make this clearer.