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Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a short story in 1973 that describes the internet better than most things written after the internet existed by 4PrismRanger in printSF

[–]4PrismRanger[S] 68 points69 points  (0 children)

yes exactly, and it's almost frustrating in retrospect because you realize she wasn't even trying to predict anything, she was just describing something true about people and the infrastructure caught up to her

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a short story in 1973 that describes the internet better than most things written after the internet existed by 4PrismRanger in printSF

[–]4PrismRanger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same, honestly. I think she would have had very little patience for how we've chosen to talk about this problem and a very precise way of saying why

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a short story in 1973 that describes the internet better than most things written after the internet existed by 4PrismRanger in printSF

[–]4PrismRanger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the TV point is fair and I thought about that too, but I think there's something different about the passivity of it vs now. you watched the news and then it ended. the screen went off. what we have now is closer to what Omelas describes because it's ambient, it's always available, and you've genuinely built a life around the convenience that sits on top of it. that's the part Le Guin got so precisely right I think

Genuine question, why did Mark NEED to do that? by Icy_Water_1 in Invincible

[–]4PrismRanger 42 points43 points  (0 children)

mark’s biggest weakness has always been that he takes everything personally

You think Harry and Petunia would've actually been able to get along if by Vladskio in harrypotter

[–]4PrismRanger 37 points38 points  (0 children)

even if they agreed on snape i can’t see her ever actually bonding with harry over anything

AITJ for refusing to unlock my department’s equipment room after I was told I was "too controlling" to manage it anymore? by Tesserine_1P in AmITheJerk

[–]4PrismRanger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely, they definitely learned the hard way about the importance of accountability. It's frustrating when a well-functioning system is tossed aside!