"Does Elon Musk really understand Iain M Banks's 'utopian anarchist' Culture?"

From the Guardian:

"The tech entrepreneur has endorsed a vision of monolithic totalitarianism overseen by machiavellian machines – and one that is neither entirely utopian or anarchist"

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Easy for you to say.

As noted back in December 2016:

21st Century Headlines

I delude myself that I am reasonably up-to-speed on the zeitgeist and on technology but twenty or so times a day things are brought to my attention about which I was heretofore clueless.

Here's a headline from VentureBeat:

Bot-making service Motion.ai now supports Node.js

And all I can think of is a scene from Friends eighteen years ago:

Phoebe: They don't know we know they know we know. And Joey, you can't say anything.

Joey:      Couldn't if I wanted to.

And this one, also VentureBeat:

Super Evil Megacorp starts team-franchise program to energize Vainglory...

I would expect nothing less from SEMC.

According to CrunchBase Super Evil Megacorp has raised $42 million in three venture rounds.
I'd buy it just for the name. But wasn't invited.

Finally Quartz almost made the Questions America Wants Answered series with:

What Nike’s $720 self-lacing sneaker, releasing today, signals about Nike’s future

until I realized I didn't care what Nike's $720 self-lacing sneakers signaled about Nike's future.

And this happens every day.
I just nod my head and try to change the subject to something simpler.