I was reading this really old science fiction novel the other day, and I started wondering how much of China might already be under the control of some form of artificial intelligence. What if the higher-ups in the CCP actually retired from government long ago? What if Skynet (or the Matrix) was running things in China now?
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Nope, Orwell was all about the hooman stuff. Technologically speaking he saw two-way video screens coming, but his focus was always on the psychological/political stuff.
Flying robot armies is more Neal’s thing, and I think broadly speaking he’s right, but he gets the politics (mostly) wrong.
If the two of them someone had a brainchild together, that would replace our need to ask Discobot about the future.
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Sorry, I can neither confirm nor deny that.
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