dichotic noise

In a near dark future we may have to go this way. Have our public tweets bot proof, and the Twitter API returning base64 encoded images of our tweets instead of text, unless you’re a really good friend … then you may have some of your friends sell your plain text tweets to advertisers, friends hacking friends’ accounts to harvest more sellable tweets, etc.

Well, that’s a dark vision of the future, fueled by the readings I’m doing for a Cyberpunk course at the Peer 2 Peer University.

Science fiction — before the cyberpunk split — was more or less different retellings of the same archetypes where aliens replaced ghosts and monsters, space replaced the oceans and technology replaced magic. This provided the grounds for scientific speculations, — and for a long time that was the main theme — and that was the fuel of the (technical) imagination of the mankind. We reached the Moon in a story first in Kepler’s “Somnium,” then with Jules Verne’s “From Earth to Moon.”

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