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This is eerily close to what two of the main characters in Ender's Game are doing in order to change events. Internet, the blogosphere, comments, trolls, it was
by m_mueller 12y ago
This is eerily close to what two of the main characters in Ender's Game are doing in order to change events. Internet, the blogosphere, comments, trolls, it was all predicted with quite a bit of detail in that book from 1985.
- siegecraft 12y agoIf I recall, that was a hilarious optimistic view of things, where there was high level/scholarly debate online and people were persuaded by great rhetoric.. quite a departure from the race to the bottom, cesspool of online commentary as it exists today.
- m_mueller 12y agoI agree. Also the impact today doesn't turn out to be that big as described in the book (although that might be because we haven't yet had someone like the Wiggins family?). But still, the mechanism itself was all there.
- watmough 12y agoAnd satirized by XKCD: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/locke_and_demosthenes.png http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/locke_and_demosthenes.png