Q&A with Tim Maughan, the sci-fi writer whose dystopian visions of AR-powered surveillance capitalism now seem to be turning into reality with uncanny accuracy
“...this whole system, none of the humans I've met know how this system works, but the internet, this networked algorithmic system that lives on the internet apparently does, and that's what's getting us everything... Really scary, it's really scary.” https://onezero.medium.com/.…
“There's an actual Black Lives Matter protest in New York, and the most unrealistic thing, it turns out, about my depressing dystopian novel is that the police manage to fucking control themselves.” https://onezero.medium.com/...
Oh yeah, @timmaughan wants you to think his fiction is predictive b/c he's just so tapped into the currents of socio-technical trends. But that's b/c it distracts us from asking about the lathe of heaven he spins up every night. https://onezero.medium.com/...
That @timmaughan being right on the money as usual. I note in passing that the frog-boiling analogy is exactly what John Brunner was doing in The Sheep Look Up. We haven't learned a thing in over 40 years. https://onezero.medium.com/...
What “worries me is that they're modeling my behavior, &...making judgments based on that, which might not be the right judgments for everybody. And they're using that model to make decisions about people who aren't even their users” 🔥 Q&A w/ @timmaughan: https://onezero.medium.c…