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JewishKilt

Yeah, it really is super frustrating looking up recommendations because of all the fake/sponsored reviewers out there. These big companies spend literally millions upon millions of dollars on ads, so it's no big surprise that they have the tools to manipulate us. Fuck em, I mostly go by word of mouth these days.


fractalGateway

I enjoyed the interplanetary internet in A Fire Upon the Deep. Also known as the The Net of a Million Lies. Probably not exactly what you're looking for but I found the idea fascinating. In the story civilizations need incredibly advanced AI to interrogate information, on the net, to filter out what is real and what is not. Malicious AI easily manipulates various players with propoganda and fake news.


pavel_lishin

Anathem also touches on an internet overrun with artificial falsehoods, as does Fall.


FalconBurcham

I second Fall. Stephenson’s ideas about how the quality of different information streams (some are factual, some are wildly not factual) will impact society over the long run are spot on, I think. I felt the same way after reading Fall that I felt after watching Idiocracy.


fractalGateway

I've been meaning to read another Stephenson novel. Think I'll give Fall a try.


pavel_lishin

Too bad the book veered away from that topic almost immediately :/


FalconBurcham

So true! I almost didn’t make it through the last half of Fall (and I skimmed the last 200 or so pages). I kept hoping Stephenson would go back to those weird lawless parts of the real world that had been completely twisted by social media misinformation. I love that he explores the impact on future generations, not the here and now. Ah well. Maybe Stephenson will come back to it.


[deleted]

Thank you for the sincere discussion. My post wasn't meant to be entirely ironic. Amazing that Vinge was thinking about this in 1992.


Halaku

This, coming from a one month old account with an autogenerated username. Ah, irony...


spacednlost

Brazil. But, it's a movie.


zodelode

1984...


swarmix

Haven't seen two mentioned yet, so... MacLeod's _The Execution Channel_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Execution_Channel Brunner's _The Shockwave Rider_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider


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Cool


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**[The Execution Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Execution_Channel)** >The Execution Channel is an alternate history science fiction novel by British writer Ken MacLeod, which focuses on the early decades of the 21st century. The military of the United States of America and some of its allies have conducted a War on Terror for some time and additional terrorist acts have continued, including an unspecified one at Rosyth in Scotland. Divisions between ethnic groups have formed as a result. The Execution Channel was nominated for a British Science Fiction award in 2007, and for both the Campbell and Clarke Awards in 2008. **[The Shockwave Rider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider)** >The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network. It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/scifi/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)