alt Hacker NewsRollerball has the central premise that society is outsourcing all decisions to a central computer and everybody just blindly follows, to the point where nobody checks whether it’s functioning properly.
First time I watched it I thought it was beyond far fetched. In the age of LLMs I’m not so sure anymore.
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chiph • yesterday at 7:35 PM
I'm surprised that the font used for the "Rollerball" title wasn't mentioned at typesetinthefuture.com
ndsipa_pomu • yesterday at 9:48 AM
"Logan's Run" is similar, but with the idea pushed further. I think Rollerball is more political in specifically targetting corporations as being malignant forces.
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The short scene where they are in the "computer room" and the operator mentions that they lost the entire history of 14th century painting, or something like that. So relevant to contemporary memory holes and wholesale data losses.