Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future
blargle@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
“Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.”
Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 days ago
One of the best books.
frank@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
What book? The passage above seems great. Kind of Terry Pratchett–esque
gedhrel@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Snowcrash.