5/24/2026 at 4:21:37 PM
> "These students have spent their whole lives being taught, cajoled, entertained, and surveilled by computers and algorithms -- in and out of the classroom. (But importantly, in.) But they recognize now -- if they hadn't already -- as rejection letter after rejection letter hits their email inbox, that they're being spurned by this same machinery that they’re supposedly most in tune with. “Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis,” as Kurt Vonnegut wrote in Player Piano..."It occurs to me, sourly, that maybe we are entering a cyberpunk dystopia envisioned by Neuromancer, The Diamond Age, or Cyberpunk 2077, but only the boring, pedestrian parts of cyberpunk. No cyberspace with flashy visual effects to hack in, no people with exotic neural implants or modifications wandering around. No, instead it's a cyberpunk world where we all exist primarily (almost entirely) in a digital parallel world, reduced to merely a set of digital records of our activity in corporate and governmental databases for hundreds of algorithms to act upon with the actual flesh and blood human being almost an afterthought.
by ThrowawayR2
5/24/2026 at 6:04:03 PM
There is a subreddit called A Boring Dystopia. I think they nailed the feeling.I'm also seeing elements of Fall or Dodge In Hell.
by nicbou