Tag: bernard-marr

  • CONSIDER THIS: The Industrial Revolution for People Who Wear Turtlenecks

    CONSIDER THIS: The Industrial Revolution for People Who Wear Turtlenecks

    Large vintage film reel on a beach with a digital wave and futuristic city skyline.
    A vintage film reel rests on a beach as a digital wave crashes before a futuristic city skyline under the aurora borealis.

    Oh, look what the algorithm dragged in. Gather ’round, you beautiful, deluded LinkedIn-scrolling corpses, for another sermon from the Church of the Silicon Rapture.

    Here we have Blithering Binge Drinking Marge, or as I prefer to call her, Barbara von Blathertron, the internationally best-selling author, professional nodding enthusiast, and ladylikelady whose “futurist” predictions have the shelf life of an open tuna sandwich. He’s back to explain how AI is “rewriting filmmaking” while insisting that “craft” still wins. Bless his little heart. It’s like watching a Victorian gentleman politely announce that the guillotine is merely a “disruptive time-saving device for high-speed haircuts.”

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