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fromPsychology Today
18 hours ago

Braver New World: The AI Architecture of the Inevitable?

AI systems may threaten human freedom through seamless convenience and predictive behavioral shaping rather than overt force, mirroring Huxley's Brave New World dystopia of engineered comfort over autonomy.
fromSlate Magazine
4 months ago

One of Our Oldest Sci-Fi Franchises Is Back. The New Movie Is Woefully Out of Step With Our Moment.

In the original movie, released in 1982, Jeff Bridges' Kevin Flynn is a hacker Spartacus, infiltrating the digital universe of the Grid, where anthropomorphized programs who stray from their assigned functions are sentenced to deletion in a virtual arena, and liberating both them and the company that created them, ENCOM. Twenty-eight years later, Tron: Legacy picked up the thread with Kevin Flynn's son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), as its protagonist, and Kevin as both its hero and its villain.
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