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The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders

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Post by caskance »

roymurdock wrote: post #23

Self-referential, technology-focused and shaped texts like this make me wonder what the new, dominant school of thought will be for this generation's western literature. Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it. SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west that it would be hard for authors today t…

They will be reading memes and copypastas. Drink verification can will be to our children as 1984 was to us. Honestly, I envy them.

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Post by auston »

roymurdock wrote: post #23

Self-referential, technology-focused and shaped texts like this make me wonder what the new, dominant school of thought will be for this generation's western literature. Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it. SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west that it would be hard for authors today t…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamodernism

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Post by ritchiea »

I bought the kindle edition and I don't get the hype about this book at all. First of all it's barely a book, it's not even a novella, it's pretty much zine length. It's a 10-15 min read. I'm thinking I made a mistake in getting the electronic version since the charm seems to be in the physicality of it. There is some cleverness in the story but it's so brief that the real phenomenon here is not poignant satire, instead it's how the zine was delivered to its initial recipients and that it got their attention in the first place.

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Post by Artistry121 »

austenallred wrote: post #15
elmar wrote: post #13

"We were promised flying cars and all we got was 140 characters" Peter Thiel I bet in Peter to be one of the authors of the book.

There are a lot of quotes in there from a ton of people. I'm actually in there, and I'm neither famous nor do I know who put the book out.

I read on your blog that you were getting off HN. Glad to see that's not true.

Re: The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders

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Post by austenallred »

Artistry121 wrote: post #36
austenallred wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a lot of quotes in there from a ton of people. I'm actually in there, and I'm neither famous nor do I know who put the book out.

I read on your blog that you were getting off HN. Glad to see that's not true.

I'm trying to get off HN like it's an abusive significant other. I don't know why, and I don't think it's healthy, but somehow I keep coming back for more.

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Post by username223 »

marknutter wrote: post #12

This is off topic, but why is WaPost only giving me 30% of my screen in which to view the article: http://i.imgur.com/QwnLoIh.png I sometimes wish these news publications would just use Medium or similar blogging platforms.

This is why modern browsers have a "please format the text I came here to read in a way that I can actually read it" button. It's ironic that online publishers are paying coders to make reading their publications so awful that the companies who write browsers pay other coders to remove the awfulness.
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