One of the things I dislike about the digital era compared to the era of real books and things, is that it was so much more difficult for the Ministry of Truth to rewrite things and change all the copies in a world of physical items than it would be for billionaires in charge of high tech companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook to run a program and insert a word like “coolth” into the middle of the digital record. I’d never heard of “coolth” before, but a Google search says it entered the dictionary in the 1500’s. Or are we in the Matrix now? And were we always there?
One of the things I dislike about the digital era compared to the era of real books and things, is that it was so much more difficult for the Ministry of Truth to rewrite things and change all the copies in a world of physical items than it would be for billionaires in charge of high tech companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook to run a program and insert a word like “coolth” into the middle of the digital record. I’d never heard of “coolth” before, but a Google search says it entered the dictionary in the 1500’s. Or are we in the Matrix now? And were we always there?