Author Archives: Damien Walter

Did George Orwell see Big Elon coming?

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You should buy your books on Amazon

Why is it not such a good idea to “walk away” from tech platforms like Amazon, Facebook etc? A number of people responded with their own decisions to walk away from these platforms after my last post on Walk Away Syndrome WAS. I’m not here to critique anyone’s personal decisions made for their own healthContinue reading “You should buy your books on Amazon”

Wait…are we an oligarchy now?

America was a sold a sci-fi narrative of infinite growth and the technological singularity, to cover the rise of a new oligarchy It’s the most cliche idea in sci-fi An all powerful technology corporation Weyland-Yutani, Omni consumer products, Cyberdyne Systems X-Corp! oh…wait…it seems Grok hallucinated some reality into our sci-fi here! And a promethean techContinue reading “Wait…are we an oligarchy now?”

Ursula K Le Gin was kinda Woke

So. Ursula K Le Guin was kinda Woke. Which is also why she emerged as kinda the most famous of the great 20th century science fiction writers. Kinda. Fame over time means being adopted by new generations. The vast majority of science fiction writers won’t make that leap. So the huge names of the pastContinue reading “Ursula K Le Gin was kinda Woke”