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In Web 4.0: [[LinkedIn]]’s [[chatbot]]s do it all for you, and wish you a “happy work-i-versary!”. | In Web 4.0: [[LinkedIn]]’s [[chatbot]]s do it all for you, and wish you a “happy work-i-versary!”. | ||
Welcome to 2021: every gormless | Welcome to 2021: every gormless teenager on the planet carries enough processing power to land a rocket on the moon, and yet here we still are. | ||
Modernism is profoundly [[determinist]], [[rationalist]], assumes the world is therefore a static place which even the hardest problems can be solved — that machines can be built that can divine the answers to questions our (gormless) mortal minds cannot handle, and in that sense is in equal parts utopian, delusional and ''lazy'': it believes that difficult stuff can all be solved without upsetting the dynamics of the system, and once solved we will all live happily ever after. | Modernism is profoundly [[determinist]], [[rationalist]], assumes the world is therefore a static place which even the hardest problems can be solved — that machines can be built that can divine the answers to questions our (gormless) mortal minds cannot handle, and in that sense is in equal parts utopian, delusional and ''lazy'': it believes that difficult stuff can all be solved without upsetting the dynamics of the system, and once solved we will all live happily ever after. | ||