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[Post/Millennials’ Voices] Issue 12 – The Lucid Prisoner: Essays on Digital Dystopia

Introduction Prisoner and dystopia. Yes, you read the words correctly. What a combo! Some of you will quickly comment, “What a gloomy collection!” And you …

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Independent Digital Archive [IDA]. TSI Tkaronto Autonomous Region Branch. File Number 5639, Political Collections.

Archivist’s note: This manifesto was disseminated worldwide by the Peoples’ Network using hijacked household AI assistants and other private devices on October 5th, 2071. Immediately …

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The Networked Cage: Life, Power, and Illusion in 2075

From Utopian Dreams to Dystopian Reality Life feels both frighteningly different and oddly familiar in the year 2075. The digital world has become so vast …

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Dystopia by Design: From ARPANET to Veracore

From Innovation to Surveillance The year is 2075, and the promise of innovation and a brighter future has collapsed into a dystopian world dominated by …

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Citizen Control Through Technology:Exploring a Dystopian Future

The Literacy Era and the Seeds of Complacency At the turn of the century, citizens were well into what is now called the Literacy Era. …

Reimagining the Internet’s Future to 2075: Technology, Democracy, and Power

From Utopian Promise to Critical Divide The Internet was originally envisioned to be a tool that would tear down structures of power and circulate knowledge …