Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 on Nostr: TFW you realise you're living in a dystopian SciFi "5 minutes in the future" story ...
TFW you realise you're living in a dystopian SciFi "5 minutes in the future" story from Sterling/Stross/Macleod.
Pagers made under license in Europe from a Taiwan company that explode on demand. That had been adopted as a low tech communication channel because mobiles are too easily tracked and hijacked and were being used as targets for drone assassinations.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/hezbollah-pager-explosion-lebanon-israel-gold-apollo
"I blame SciFi Dystopias"
Pagers made under license in Europe from a Taiwan company that explode on demand. That had been adopted as a low tech communication channel because mobiles are too easily tracked and hijacked and were being used as targets for drone assassinations.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/hezbollah-pager-explosion-lebanon-israel-gold-apollo
"I blame SciFi Dystopias"