> Note on the title: “Artificial Inanity” comes from Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem. Which was awfully prescient in 2008: https://archive.org/details/anathem0

> Note on the title: “Artificial Inanity” comes from Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem. Which was awfully prescient in 2008: https://archive.org/details/anathem0000step/page/794/mode/2up?q=inanity https://archive.org/details/anathem0000step/page/794/mode/2u... They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. ...