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Post by t-bob on Jul 30, 2023 22:22:44 GMT -5
“now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like I am now.”
-- Charles Bukowski
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Post by Marshall on Jul 31, 2023 6:54:35 GMT -5
So he posted it on the internet.
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Post by t-bob on Jul 31, 2023 12:20:36 GMT -5
So he posted it on the internet. An extract from a poem by Charles Bukowski written before the arrival of social networks and hand-held devices. |
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Post by Marty on Jul 31, 2023 13:32:16 GMT -5
So he posted it on the internet. An extract from a poem by Charles Bukowski written before the arrival of social networks and hand-held devices. Read "The Caves of Steel" Isaac Asimov 1953. The first of 3 books that led up to his Foundation series. It's a sci-fi murder mystery but describes human social interaction in the far future. |
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Post by t-bob on Jul 31, 2023 18:11:05 GMT -5
An extract from a poem by Charles Bukowski written before the arrival of social networks and hand-held devices. Read "The Caves of Steel" Isaac Asimov 1953. The first of 3 books that led up to his Foundation series. It's a sci-fi murder mystery but describes human social interaction in the far future. I read Asimov’s entire book - sci-fi Foundation the series - impressive So I guess a few people wrote that social that Bu’s quote |
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Post by jdd2 on Jul 31, 2023 18:41:27 GMT -5
Wim wenders' "Until the end of the world" now seems prescient.
Besides relating to the pandemic shutdown, another element is an addictive machine that can record your dreams (and play them back to you)--you enter that virtual dream world and don't want to leave. Remarkably like people glued to their cell phones (or goggles).
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Post by Marty on Jul 31, 2023 18:48:25 GMT -5
Wim wenders' "Until the end of the world" now seems prescient. Besides relating to the pandemic shutdown, another element is an addictive machine that can record your dreams (and play them back to you)--you enter that virtual dream world and don't want to leave. Remarkably like people glued to their cell phones (or goggles). Like using Tik Tok as your window to the world. |
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Post by howard lee on Jul 31, 2023 19:34:43 GMT -5
Slightly tangential but not irrelevant:
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Post by t-bob on Jul 31, 2023 20:44:55 GMT -5
Tik Tok - I'm a Dinosaur. I had to check it
I was a technie... not now
That's OK I guess I can still do some writing and some play
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