RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116206778697936722

It's almost like the *entire cyberpunk subgenre* of literary work has been warning us about this for over half a century, but no one "thought it would get that bad."

@valthonis I'd submit that it's technically an old world order. I think the system will probably oscillate between the two forms of order at different rates in different territories, albeit over timescales longer than human lifespan. I believe control systems engineers and physiologists call it "hunting behaviour". The tricky thing is the wars that come as one entity wants to wrest power from another. #systemsArchitecture #cybernetics #controlTheory #rayDalio