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Inside ‘Mondo 2000,’ the cyber(...) 07/09/24(Tue)09:25:55 No.101335670

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Inside ‘Mondo 2000,’ the cyberpunk magazine Anonymous 07/09/24(Tue)09:25:55 No.101335670

https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/inside-mondo-2000-the-cyberpunk-magazine-that-gave-us-a-glimpse-of-the-utopian-future-that-never-was/

> What the fuck happened to the internet?

R.U.: Everybody talks about the obvious things, like the environment created by profit-seeking companies that use algorithms to fan the flames of the type of bad memes that excite people—or even just the existence of commerce on the internet, since it wasn’t that way at the start. But people hesitate to also ‘blame’ the masses. To slightly détourné [Jean-Paul] Sartre, hell is other peoples’ tweets.

There’s an entire world full of people who are toxic with bad tropes, ignorance, distorted views of reality—all of us, really. For example, everybody talks about Facebook being used as a tool of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, but that potential was already there. I mean, the horrors of the 20th century occurred without the assistance of Zuck.

But I do think we’re in a unique clusterfuck here in the 21st. When I was born, in 1952, there were approximately 2.5 billion people in the world. Now there are almost 8 billion, and maybe a quarter of them have access to this means of global communication. That’s a social singularity. That’s a radical decentering of the possibility of any consensual sense of the world and of the possibility of predicting what kind of politics and social habits might emerge. Probably just more confusion. And we celebrated that in Mondo. But it seems to be mainly a bad mess.