Extension-Ad-2760 t1_j7wfah4 wrote on February 9, 2023 at 9:52 PM

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What's more, 1984 is no longer possible. Our access to information is too great for censorship to ever be effective to that extent.

Information manipulation is still possible, but Brave New World is a much more likely future dystopia, if we're deciding between them

[deleted] t1_j7y5vdh wrote on February 10, 2023 at 6:02 AM

I find that information manipulation is not only happening right now but can get in my opinion a million times worse in the future. Access to information is great but what if most of that information is wrong.

In my opinion we don't live in the information age we live in the misinformation age.

jseah t1_j7ycnew wrote on February 10, 2023 at 7:24 AM

Or cyberpunk 2077...

Extension-Ad-2760 t1_j7zgb2p wrote on February 10, 2023 at 2:43 PM

That is also a possibility, but I think it's less likely to be honest. There have been a lot of times in history where corporations gain a lot of power, but they're pretty much always broken up and crushed after a while. The power of corporations tends to crumble very quickly when the government goes after them