Human Forever with James Poulos
Other Life
The Power of Televisual Media in the Cold War
The internet is a new way of weaponizing communication self, says the author. The digital medium sort of absorbs all prior media into it, which is something that makes it so powerful. We bet everything on the idea that our dreams were the best dreams and the biggest dreams, he writes. And now we've seen what could possibly go wrong with these robots who are indifferent to our souls - even if they're not incarnate entities.
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