This science fiction vision of an exaggerated version of jaded Internet people People whose technology gives them access to all the knowledge they could possibly want, and as a result, do not care "I've been to Mars. It was stupid"
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(Anderson was a teacher at a high-class school forced to interact with kids from families much better off than he was and directly based this on hearing some privileged little snot talk this way about his trip to the UK -- "It was stupid" -- and having to restrain himself)
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(I mean, the UK is in fact stupid, but still)
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YES The "if you were a more dedicated consumer maybe we'd help you live, maybe" dynamic
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or the movie Feed...
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The scene where the President calls a foreign leader a shithead and the press secretary tries to spin it as a compliment has been running through my head for the last three years.
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And of course the entire thing reads like a savage attack on smartphones, microtargeted ads, and Facebook despite predating all of those by about three years.
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