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Category: Technology
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Movies, Machines, and the Myth of the Button
This weekend I rewatched WarGames (1983), and then followed it up with Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). Both movies sit in the same uneasy space: the fear that computers might one day take control of nuclear weapons, lock humans out of the process, and decide the fate of the world with cold logic. It’s a…
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Turn Your Read Receipts On
I grew up Gen X — back when telephones were tethered to the wall and you actually had to be home to answer one. No pagers, no text bubbles, no phantom vibrations. Just a coiled cord and your own damn patience. Then came cell phones — those indestructible Nokias — and suddenly we could send tiny bursts…
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Welcome to the AltaVista Era of AI
Or: Why Your Chatbot Still Sucks, and That’s Okay By Sailor J | SailorJ.com The Year Is 1998 (But Make It AI) If you’re feeling a weird sense of déjà vu using AI tools lately, it’s because we’ve been here before. Not literally—but metaphorically, spiritually, and, frankly, technologically. Remember the early internet search days? Yahoo directories? AltaVista?…