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posted by martyb on Monday August 20 2018, @05:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the How-I-Learned-to-Stop-Worrying-and-Love-the-(spoiler) dept.

In recent issues, Technology Review has been running some science fiction short stories. I found "Noon in the antilibrary" to be timely, taking the concept of fake news to a logical extreme, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611829/noon-in-the-antilibrary/
It starts out with some action,

Marius cursed and jammed a mic stand between the crash bars of the TV studio door. "If SWAT's on its way, we don't have much time," he said.
"I don't understand." Michaela, who up until a couple of minutes ago had been streaming their interview live, still sat on one of the oval chairs under the hot lights. "What are they talking about?"

The subtitle (referenced in the Dept. line) could be:

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the IoT.

It's a quick read, perhaps 5000 words.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20 2018, @06:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20 2018, @06:02PM (#723852)

    There is no such thing anymore, if there ever was. There always was, is, and will be false propaganda. But Donald Trump made the term absolutely meaningless when he popularized it and twisted it to his agenda, that is, anything Donald Trump doesn't like. (Could that be a metalogism?)

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