Futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, zur Zeit einer der intellektuellen Darlings der kalifornischen Tech Szene - in einem hochprovokanten NYT Portrait, sowie in eigenen Worten in einem “Talk at Google” (gehalten vor etwa einem Monat).
Auszug aus dem NYT Portrait:
[On Aldous Huxley] Generations have been horrified by his novel “Brave New World,” which depicts a regime of emotion control and painless consumption. Readers who encounter the book today, Mr. Harari said, often think it sounds great. “Everything is so nice, and in that way it is an intellectually disturbing book because you’re really hard-pressed to explain what’s wrong with it,” he said. “And you do get today a vision coming out of some people in Silicon Valley which goes in that direction.”
An Alphabet media relations manager later reached out to Mr. Harari’s team to tell him to tell me that the visit to X was not allowed to be part of this story. The request confused and then amused Mr. Harari. It is interesting, he said, that unlike politicians, tech companies do not need a free press, since they already control the means of message distribution.
src: click
Und wo wir gerade bei unerwarteten Dystopien sind 😉 : click
