Why AI Evolution Looks More Like QAnon Than Blade Runner

Samuel Butler warned us about machine evolution in 1872’s Erewhon. But the real threat today isn’t sentient robots – it’s digital ecosystems wreaking havoc in ways science fiction never imagined

Welcome everyone to a bonus end(ish)-of-year edition of Techtris. This one features an essay I published in my most recent book The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated The World, and it’s on Dune, Terminator, The Matrix and their roots in an 1872 dystopian travelogue called Erewhon.

But mostly it’s about our lack of imagination when it comes to digit…