it's crazy to think how much runs on containers inside virtualized linux instances that are running in hypervisors on hardware that also probably runs linux. years ago, people just installed the os and code straight onto a a server.

Why not just add racist epithets repeating on the end of all the tweets to make every one of them look 1000 characters long? It would look about the same.

Also, there are a lot of unethical drug experiments the government performed throughout the 50s and 60s maybe other times too. They destroyed people like Kazinsky and then called him mentally insane and a danger to the world justifying even more power and control to keep everyone safe - when their uncontrolled power is the cause of the problem.

Have you looked at Neuromancer or Johnny Mnemonic or Mona Lisa Overdrive?

There are lot of references that would be familiar to someone at the time the book was written. It implies that it's describing the inevitable results of politics in the late 40s as they would unfold 40 years into the future.

It's very confusing to see that aspect of the book if you read it thinking that 1984 is far in the past. When the book was new, 1984 was far in the future - like a book about 2060 today.

++ungood