World of Weird Things Podcast

World of Weird Things Podcast 073: The Absurd Quest For Totalitarian Technocracy


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Optimism is great. It’s not a thing I personally ascribe to, being from Eastern Europe and all, but a lot of people sure do. Among those people are tech oligarchs who have a very, shall we say, particular vision for the kind of sci-fi utopia they would like us to inhabit and spoiler alert, we don’t do all that well in said utopia because it’s meant for them rather than peasants with less than nine figures of net worth. Lucky for us, most of their plans are not going to work out the way they think after physics, biology, and math weigh in. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, they’ve been at this for more than two decades now, as detailed by a brief history of WoWT…
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