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Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, "1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in 'The Matrix' and I laughed because that obviously wouldn't age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

American civilization? Yes,definitely. Human civilization? I genuinely don't think so. I believe in us as a species and think the best is yet to come (after we rid ourselves of bigots and authoritarians).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

You should read the duology (I’ve only read the first book) Monk and Robot, which is solopunk. The premise is that robots got tired of doing what they were built for, and decided to form a treaty with humans allowing them to wonder into the wild and live without human contact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Great set of books! Love them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Monk and Robot

This sounds like a great one to follow up on after having recently started Murderbot, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Speaking of… Look at the cover. There is a Wells blurb.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The further you get from the gold standard the worse life you'll have. Though you might have more social media and gadgets you'll have a smaller house and worse quality food/services, as everything is financialized through debt in a futile attempt to force the elderly who own all the assets to consume every greater amounts, as automation progressively decreases the costs and companies find more advanced ways to shrinkflate products.

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