When Windmills Become Giants: Why This 400-Year-Old Book Still Matters in the Age of ‘Fake News’ and AI

When Windmills Become Giants: Why This 400-Year-Old Book Still Matters in the Age of ‘Fake News’ and AI

MELBOURNE, Australia—Four hundred years ago, the fictional Don Quixote saw giants when others saw windmills. Today, amid a flood of “fake news,” online echo chambers, AI, and partisan media, people either side of the political spectrum can arrive at radically different conclusions about the same events. Despite the span in centuries, Miguel de Cervantes’ seminal work remains just as relevant, and in Australia, two replicas of the original “Don …