While we were busy gawking at politics, tech weirding has accelerated to unhinged levels. As somebody noted recently, we’re basically past sci-fi imaginings into territory uncharted even in fiction.
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Deep fakes, video synthesis, various blockchainy things, magic leap, notpetya class malware, WhatsApp mobs, brain interfaces, alphago zero... all in the last couple of years, all undertheorized due to politics sucking all the air out of the room
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the venezuela petro crypto currency experiment at intersection of politics and tech is weirding example.
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And US lawmakers are still hardly able to understand how a USB stick functions, so how can they get the implications of deep fake propaganda, social media agitation, cryptofascist social engineering, advanced gene editing, algorithmic bias, mass surveillance, facial recognition?
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