I buy that book from any used bookstore I find it in, and then give it to people who can think and who are working on the future. I’m not sure if this has actually has ever moved the needle, but… it probably doesn’t hurt?
The theme of “getting control of your media diet” is totally pervasive in the work.
One of the most haunting parts of it, for me, after all these years, is how the smartest things in the solar system take only the tiniest and rarest of sips of “open-ended information at all”, because they’re afraid of being hijacked by hostile inputs, which they can’t not ultimately be vulnerable to, if they retain their Turing Completeness… but they have to keep risking it sometimes if they want to not end up as pure navel gazers.
I second the recommendation of Lady of Mazes (by Karl Schroeder, yes).
I third the recommendation.
I buy that book from any used bookstore I find it in, and then give it to people who can think and who are working on the future. I’m not sure if this has actually has ever moved the needle, but… it probably doesn’t hurt?
The theme of “getting control of your media diet” is totally pervasive in the work.
One of the most haunting parts of it, for me, after all these years, is how the smartest things in the solar system take only the tiniest and rarest of sips of “open-ended information at all”, because they’re afraid of being hijacked by hostile inputs, which they can’t not ultimately be vulnerable to, if they retain their Turing Completeness… but they have to keep risking it sometimes if they want to not end up as pure navel gazers.