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Ep 209 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

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The Dystopia of Data Driven Anything

There's a little bit of that kind of more stereotypical dystopia in this section where it's like no one has their own individual computer. That only slightly factors in the plot and that they use YT's mom to get to her but I personally enjoy that chapter as almost like a not quite a short story but it paints a sad future pictureYeah sure sure yeah sure so you develop these rigid structures that ultimately when applied to an individual don't mean anything even if in aggregate they do mean somethingyep yep yep  That's the danger of data driven anything, he says. "You can be pretty good and missed stuff you can bepretty good and a little slow and inefficient

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