The modern snarky-hack journalist-on-Twitter archetype was practically invented by them. Just today I needed to check IM logs to remind myself who the hell I was talking to I could really use a way to instantly look up people at parties. is up there with 4chan and Tumblr as websites that have markedly made the internet significantly worse. But that's a fair trade-off for being able to look up anything. Actually, wouldn't that be possible in a couple of centuries?Įven without accepting futurist Ray Kurzweil's theory of an imminent singularity (in which technological progression advances so quickly that 60-year-old Kurzweil will still be around when scientists learn to indefinitely prolong life), looking at how far we got in the last century (punch cards to iPhones), it seems like it'll take under a hundred years to make an implantable Internet-ready device connected directly to the brain.Īs for spam, I'd like to assume there'd be more of a lock on that before I had the Internet in my brain, but of course there won't. But the most immediately relatable describes a brain-embedded 'Internet on crank,' albeit one that might be clogged with spam. An anonymous reader quotes BuzzFeed News: Peter Thiels campaign to ruin Gawker Media was conceived and orchestrated by a previously unknown associate who served as a middleman, allowing the billionaire to conceal his involvement in the bankrolling of lawsuits that eventually drove the New York media outlet into bankruptcy. For example, some of the essays predict humanity evolving into shapeshifting superbeings another predicts we will build baby universes. I just want to read the kick-ass ones! Because predicting the future at such a distance is almost like picking superpowers your usual analytic skills are stretched to the point of absurdity. Google, in turn, do what they do via their algorithms, which is rank websites. I think this is because they get paid by Google for doing what Google does, which is rank pages. Some of these possibilities aren't happy! Rats running the world, gray goo wiping out life on Earth. The issue is that since gawker is an internet site, it has no business making an argument.

The book Year Million explores several possible scenarios for the universe a million years from now.

Gawker because internet we cranks now