No, I haven't forgotten you

Oh my God, I'm back. Been laying low during the Presidential Elections here in the U.S., but hopefully I'm recovering from the disappointment now and can write again. But not today

Today, I point you toward William Gibson's blog, the renowned innovator of the Cyber-Punk genre. He quotes Alvin Toffler, in words more elegant than I could ever compose:

"Today, the technologies of deception are developing more rapidly than the technologies of verification. Which means we can use a television camera, plus special effects, plus computers, etc. to falsify reality so perfectly that nobody can tell the difference. And the consequences of that eventually could be a society in which nobody believes, everybody knows that seeing is not believing, and nobody believes anything. With the exception of a small minority that decides to believe one thing fanatically. And that's a dangerous social/cultural situation."

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