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How will people ever be able to get some serious work done in this future ? (just asking).

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George Orwell‘s prescience continues to amaze.

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Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Thanks! I’ve been meaning to read his work. I hadn’t thought about the additional implications of combining Huxley’s mindless subjugation by amusement with Orwell’s novel-writing machines.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=2297

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Hi Shaun ! I remember reading it, thinking: that cannot be ! Well maybe it was not, especially not in Europe, but it became.

Have another one for you: Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451. Describing a future with houses having wall-size television screens, and people not only watching but also participating in soap-style-stories. Worrying about non-existent/made-up family members & friends. Books are burned. "In later years Bradbury described F. 451 as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature. In a 1994 interview he cited political correctness as an allegory for the censorship in the book, calling it "the real enemy these days" and "thought control and freedom of speech control".

Another book that impressed me years ago was Daniel Boorstin's The Image.

Bytheway, novel-writing by computer is the profession of one of the protagonists in the futuristic novel The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe/The Unsleeping Eye/Death Watch.

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I've spent a lot of time with gpt3 and am unsold on the narrative consistency claim, but human editors could see to that.

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