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> A Fire Upon the Deep (predicted fake news via "the net of a thousand lies") Predicted ? A Fire Upon the Deep published in 1993, at which date Usenet was alre
by liotier 3y ago
> A Fire Upon the Deep (predicted fake news via "the net of a thousand lies")
Predicted ? A Fire Upon the Deep published in 1993, at which date Usenet was already mature and suffering such patterns - although not at FaceTwitTok scale.
But still, I love Vinge's take on information entropy across time, space and social networks. A Deepness in the Sky features the profession of programmer–archaeologist and I'm here for that !
- KineticLensman 3y ago> Predicted ? A Fire Upon the Deep published in 1993, at which date Usenet was already mature and suffering such patterns I still remember the moment when I realised that the galactic network in 'Fire...' was in fact based on Usenet (which I used heavily at the time), especially how it was low bandwidth text (given the interstellar distances) and how it had a fair number of nutters posting nonsense across the galaxy ('the key insight is hexapodia'). Great author, who'll be sadly missed.
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