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colinbyesterday at 12:57 PM3 repliesview on HN

Do I remember correctly that one of the major characters in what we would now call an influencer with always-on video glasses? I think his spectacles get slashdotted at one point.

I’m not sure which is the greater anachronism got me. That I didn’t find the idea of endless surveillance creep glasses bothersome at the time I read the book or that slashdotting is in itself a once current, now newly archaic term.


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Hizonneryesterday at 1:17 PM

The difference between Manfred and the influencers we have now was that he actually invented things, built things, and brokered huge deals while streaming everything.

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lelandfeyesterday at 3:02 PM

For another always-on video glasses treatment, I really liked this short film from 2016: https://vimeo.com/166807261

motorocoyesterday at 8:58 PM

I read it as a sort of prisoner's dilemma. If I'm being tracked and monitored everywhere I go, then it's in my best interests to do the same

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