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An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

How will the internet evolve in the coming decades?
Fiction writers have explored some possibilities. In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation and advertising that it is largely unusable. Characters in Stephenson’s novel deal with this problem by subscribing to “edit streams” – human-selected news a…

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Fifty years before the architecture for the web was created, Jorge Luis Borges had already imagined an analog equivalent. Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty ImagesHow will the internet evolve in the coming decades? Fiction writers have explored some possibilities. In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformati…

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How will the internet evolve in the coming decades? Fiction writers have explored some possibilities. In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation and advertising that it is largely unusable. Characters in Stephenson’s novel […]

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How an 83-year-old short story may predict the chaotic collapse of the open internet

How will the internet evolve in the coming decades?
Fiction writers have explored some possibilities.
In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation and…

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J Studios/DigitalVision/Getty ImagesHow will the internet evolve in the coming decades?Fiction writers have explored some possibilities.In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation, and advertising that it is largely unusable.Characters in Stephenson’s novel deal with this problem by subscribing to “edi…

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How will the internet evolve in the coming decades? Fiction writers have explored some possibilities. In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation and advertising that it is largely unusable. Characters in Stephenson’s novel deal with this problem by subscribing to “edit streams” – human-selected news a…

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Fifty years before the architecture for the web was created, Jorge Luis Borges had already imagined an analog equivalent. Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images     Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis How will the internet evolve in the coming decades? Fiction writers have explored some possibilities. In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so…

An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

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