What the cyberoptimists got wrong - and what to do about it
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They stole our future. Let's take it back. Here at the end of the world, it's time to take stock. Is technology a force for good? Can it...

They stole our future. Let’s take it back.

Here at the end of the world, it’s time to take stock. Is technology a force for good? Can it be? Was it ever? How did we end up with a world made up of “five websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four” (h/t Tom Eastman)? Should we worry that machine learning will take away our free will through A/B splitting and Big Five Personality Types? Where the fuck did all these Nazis come from?

  • @Bloodaxe@lemmy.ml
    2•3 years ago

    Not sure if I’ll get an answer here, but what is RC3 exactly? I’ve heard of RC3 world, but couldn’t figure out if it was a social mmo or something else 😅

    • @glennsl@lemmy.mlOP
      2•3 years ago

      It’s this year’s corona edition of the annual Chaos Communication Congress. Since that’s such a mouthful it’s usually shortened to C3 and prefixed with the edition. Last year’s congress was referred to as 36C3, and since this year’s edition is remote it’s referred to as the rC3.