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I’m sure the antennae will be impossible to physically disconnect as well. I really hoped we’d never get to Fahrenheit 451 but the wall to wall TVs that watch y
by ianai 7y ago
I’m sure the antennae will be impossible to physically disconnect as well. I really hoped we’d never get to Fahrenheit 451 but the wall to wall TVs that watch you are pretty close at hand.
- zingermc 7y agoOne terrible but effective solution is to turn your home into a Faraday cage.
- boring_twenties 7y agoWhy terrible? Your own wifi would still work inside the cage, would it not? As would your Internet uplink over cable/fiber/DSL/whatever. The only downside would seem to be cell phone service, but you could just use VoIP and Wifi for that while inside the house. The real downside of course would be the cost. Shit, maybe I'll need to get a real job again after all...
- Cougher 7y agoI'd like for just one of these people offering the "solution" of turning our homes into faraday cages to show us that they've actually done this with their homes.
- sudosysgen 7y agoI would do it. I get cell service over WiFi. It has absolutely no downsides for me.
- StavrosK 7y agoThey'll be traces in a PCB, you will probably be able to cut the trace (and fry the transmitter).
- 1over137 7y agoFahrenheit 451? That was book burning. I think you mean 1984, and its telescreens.
- salemh 7y agoNo, those are present - part of the commentary of the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 Montag awakens ill the next morning. Mildred tries to care for her husband but finds herself more involved in the "parlor wall" entertainment in the living room – large televisions filling the walls. Beatty recounts the history of how books lost their value and how the firemen were adapted for their current role: over the course of several decades, people began to embrace new media (in this case, film and television), sports, and an ever-quickening pace of life.
- ianai 7y agoIt’s also a plot point in how they hunt the protagonist down, iirc. He wasn’t as engaged to the programming as he was supposed to be engaged.