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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://infosec.exchange/users/i0null/statuses/113654071099333092">Hacker Memes (i0null@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 15:32:10 JST</a><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@i0null" title="i0null@infosec.exchange"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/30345-48-20240905112802.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Hacker Memes" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Hacker Memes</a></section><article><p>As the prophecy foretold.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4189182#notice-8187653">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-15T15:32:10+09:00" title="Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 15:32:10 JST">about 5 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@i0null/113654071099333092" rel="external" title="Sent from infosec.exchange via ActivityPub">infosec.exchange</a></span></span><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@i0null/113654071099333092">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3702831">[Segment about Carl Segan Broadcast]Carl Sagan could not have predicted 2021, but he did see it coming.
He wrote the following back in 1995, and we quote,
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time when the United States
is a service and information economy when nearly all the manufacturing industries have
slipped away to other countries, when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a
very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.
When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question
those in authority, when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our
critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true,
we slide almost without noticing back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in
the enormously influential media.
The 30-second soundbites now down to 10 seconds or less.
Lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition,
but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Roll that around for a while.
Those were among his final published words.
He died 10 months later.
we are 25 years later realizing just what he was trying to tell us back then.Credits: MSNBC</a></label><br><video poster="" controls="controls"><source src="https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/654/069/061/335/733/original/9b4f722207ba8179.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source></video></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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1. [Segment about Carl Segan Broadcast] Carl Sagan could not have predicted 2021, but he did see it coming. He wrote the following back in 1995, and we quote, I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time when the United States is a service and information economy when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries, when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues. When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority, when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide almost without noticing back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30-second soundbites now down to 10 seconds or less. Lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. Roll that around for a while. Those were among his final published words. He died 10 months later. we are 25 years later realizing just what he was trying to tell us back then. Credits: MSNBC

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