A bit past our cultural moment here, with some wild speculation that popped out when I finally sat down to wrap my head around 5G basics a few months back, when the topic was Late Night-hot. Published and edited by James Curcio, who has my humble thanks.
Old SF would showcase “the terminal”, Dave speaking to an omnipresent yet monolithic HAL, but with the rise of device culture our HALs are cloud-backed and decentralized, molecular rather than molar, concepts as much as things. What is sold is the intangible cyborg infrastructure undergirding agency […]
What happens when this wave reaches writing, thinking, even meaning? How do we employ 5G as an analogy for the intellectual labor of tomorrow?
–Attack on Earth-Me: Narrative, Nodality, and 5G
I swear I was going for a couple paras.
All the essays here.
the Budafoki amended 