• ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse”

    Here we go…

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      7 months ago

      Why do people keep reading dystopias as instruction books?

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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        7 months ago

        Your guess is as good as mine. Let’s just hope that they didn’t also see any copies of The Limits to Growth as well. It was a scientific report published in 1972 by a think-tank. Using computer models developed at MIT, the authors warned that continuing on business-as-usual population and consumption growth trajectories would likely lead to societal collapse within the next 100 years.

        I don’t know about you but I’m excited!