Thursday Rant

The flickering monitors of the 1980s promised us a future of chrome, cables, and digital transcendence—a world that felt safely tucked away behind a "Coming Soon" trailer. But look around. From the neon streets of Tokyo to the quietest suburbs, the boundary between the celluloid dream and the concrete reality has dissolved. We didn't get the flying cars we were promised, but we got something much more invasive: the total integration of the machine into the human experience, t

Remember that flick Minority Report with Tom Cruise, where the cops snagged people for crimes they were gonna commit? Wild stuff,...