>>5760843>fantasy becoming reality>ChatGPT, free technology...!Percy Bysshe Shelley once said that the greatest instrument of moral good is the imagination.
An example of the wrong approach of fantasy. I have not read this novel, but I believe it was inspired by the Edinburgh Fringe festival. In the narrative, extraterrestrial aliens bombard a culture with advanced technology to encourage the technosingularity.
From wikipedia, and then the archive link.
>>5746820>>5746823Does make you wonder who are the Afghans today with ChatGPT
>In 2010 David Betz, a senior lecturer in war studies at King's College, London, cited Singularity Sky as a model for a proposal to undermine the Taliban's hold over Afghanistan, and strengthen the country's legitimate government, by giving every resident of the country a free mobile phone. He said it would "create a real communications space and 'let ideas find their own levels'". In Stross's novel, he noted, "the contact of the lesser developed culture with the advanced one is utterly devastating for the status quo of the former. The parallels are pretty obvious." 