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Dexter Palmer's 2016 novel Version Control had imagined something rather like this in a near-future United States, where phone calls and video screens would occ
by Lagged2Death 9y ago
Dexter Palmer's 2016 novel Version Control had imagined something rather like this in a near-future United States, where phone calls and video screens would occasionally be interrupted by a message from the president.
I had thought it was inventive and evocative, but sort of unrealistic.
I was wrong. Yikes.
- alanh 9y agoSo easy to imagine Trump doing this, too. He's already made much ado of needing Twitter to be heard properly instead of going through the "fake" (mainstream) news media. Imagine Twitter no longer feels like enough of a megaphone to the egomaniac. Is there any law against pressuring telcos to do this? Would he care if there were? Would he even be challenged if it came in response to a national emergency?
- madtxl 9y agoWatch Black Mirror's episode "Fifteen Million Merits"...