beneath the shining city
The load-bearing child
Silicon Valley says AI will end scarcity and rewrite the social contract. Science fiction has run this experiment already and it keeps returning the same result: the technology was never what stood in the way.
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Mindful MachinesMarch 16, 2025
chapters
- Future Unknown0:00
- Is Utopia Possible?3:54
- Life After Scarcity14:51
- The Ones Who Stay and Fight22:25
- The Technology Fallacy27:29
- The Odyssey Problem34:13
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Where did the name Omelas come from?
A road sign for Salem, Oregon, read backwards in a car mirror. Le Guin said her ideas came from forgetting Dostoevsky and reading road signs in reverse.
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Fiction
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film clips
- The Truman Show1998
- The Matrix1999
- Equilibrium2002
- V for Vendetta2005
- Children of Men2006
- Star Trek2009
- 127 Hours2010
- Elysium2013
- The Giver2014
- Everest2015
- Star Trek Beyond2016
- The Orville2017
- The Social Dilemma2020
scorein order of appearance
- Dance of the Sugar Plum NutcrackersGeorge Georgia
- SynchronicityJoe Henson
- Through the Night 10Joe Henson
- Passing TimePaul Mottram
- Spacer 2Christian Garrick
- The DreadKevin MacLeod
- A Sapient SingularityNoah Sorota
- Faded Memories 9Luke Richards
- The Enemy Within 2Luke Richards
- The Enemy WithinLuke Richards
- Searching for AnswersLuke Richards
- Heroes Return 5Luke Richards
- MyriadPaul Mottram
- The Clock Is TickingLuke Richards
- Building SuspensePhilip Guyler
- Faded MemoriesLuke Richards
- Why Not 4Paul Mottram
- Binary DreamingLuke Richards
- You're in DangerLuke Richards
- Finding the BodiesLuke Richards
- Machines Are My Only FriendsLuke Richards
- Tense SituationPaul Mottram
- Balance of NaturePaul Mottram
- TimescapePaul Mottram
- One Last Time 3Paul Mottram
- AdagiettoArash Safaian
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