Dude, you broke the future!
Charlie Stross,
Charlie's Diary,
Jan 03, 2018
This is the text of science fiction writer Charlie Stross's address to the 34th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig in December. The speech rambles a bit but there are interesting reflections on how to predict the future (the key is combining the 85 percept of trends that will continue as expected and the small percentage that leave you wondering what happened), the role of corproations in society, the question of what AI wants, and what went wrong with it all (his explanation: the "mistake was to fund the build-out of the public world wide web—as opposed to the earlier, government-funded corporate and academic internet—by monetizing eyeballs via advertising revenue.").
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