Let's not overlook the multiplier affecting 'public opinion', giving any conspiracy theories an extra boost: the social media where the number of 'likes' define which 'hot theory' gets spewed into more and more people's timeline ('hashtag xyzzy ...) and thus, just as in the olden days, people 'believe' because 'it was in the papers', then they 'believe' because 'it was on the radio', then because 'it was on telly'.
Nowadays, where proper journalists are as rare as hen's teeth, anything on social media, especially if they're "Top Hashtag", are 'news' and turned into 'news reports'.
And so those theories proliferate because 'everybody says so' while at the same time fewer people use yon grey matter between their ears and think for themselves: just a bit of common sense needed, no PhD required ...
Absolutely. We're stuck between a madness of crowds and a dictatorial elite. Some of the things that go around can be totally bonkers - I remember following the Q Anon stuff around the last American election; there were Telegram channels full of cryptic messages alluding to uprisings and coups about to be launched by clandestine factions... all nonsense, of course.
How true. I feel like a dolt for not mentioning AI. I'll have to add a postscript...
The deep fake videos in our midst are utterly believable. I don't think it's clear how anyone will distinguish truth from fiction from, well, now onwards.
"Normal people" still know the history of this island. They know the truth of it - both the good and the bad. They simply watch the fabricated story being told, often by newcomers, with a curl of the lip. Sadly, once we normal people have gone, the current children will not know this sceptred isle for what it once was.
Frederick shows the sickening noise of shouting and counter-opposition to almost every aspect of our lives. One has to step back, and filter the shouting.
The bigger events then come into focus - such as Fujitsu being pre-selected for a national ID scheme which will apply - if it gets off the ground - at bars and super markets. A corrupt useless corp scraping (ie, trawling) data from millions of people after the Horizon affair. A prime example of bad news buried in daily froth.
Let's not overlook the multiplier affecting 'public opinion', giving any conspiracy theories an extra boost: the social media where the number of 'likes' define which 'hot theory' gets spewed into more and more people's timeline ('hashtag xyzzy ...) and thus, just as in the olden days, people 'believe' because 'it was in the papers', then they 'believe' because 'it was on the radio', then because 'it was on telly'.
Nowadays, where proper journalists are as rare as hen's teeth, anything on social media, especially if they're "Top Hashtag", are 'news' and turned into 'news reports'.
And so those theories proliferate because 'everybody says so' while at the same time fewer people use yon grey matter between their ears and think for themselves: just a bit of common sense needed, no PhD required ...
Absolutely. We're stuck between a madness of crowds and a dictatorial elite. Some of the things that go around can be totally bonkers - I remember following the Q Anon stuff around the last American election; there were Telegram channels full of cryptic messages alluding to uprisings and coups about to be launched by clandestine factions... all nonsense, of course.
How do we know Kate Middleton actually exists?
She could be a creation of AI.
OK, I'm joking, but I suspect the day that I might not be isn't far off.
How true. I feel like a dolt for not mentioning AI. I'll have to add a postscript...
The deep fake videos in our midst are utterly believable. I don't think it's clear how anyone will distinguish truth from fiction from, well, now onwards.
Who did you claim you are?!
"Normal people" still know the history of this island. They know the truth of it - both the good and the bad. They simply watch the fabricated story being told, often by newcomers, with a curl of the lip. Sadly, once we normal people have gone, the current children will not know this sceptred isle for what it once was.
Frederick shows the sickening noise of shouting and counter-opposition to almost every aspect of our lives. One has to step back, and filter the shouting.
The bigger events then come into focus - such as Fujitsu being pre-selected for a national ID scheme which will apply - if it gets off the ground - at bars and super markets. A corrupt useless corp scraping (ie, trawling) data from millions of people after the Horizon affair. A prime example of bad news buried in daily froth.