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40 Years Ago, Apple Got Our Current Tech Dystopia Dead Wrong

We all want to feel like the sledgehammer, but most of us are merely the screen.
We all want to feel like the sledgehammer, but most of us are merely the screen. Gif: Apple / YouTube

We are all the sledgehammer, Apple does like to tell its fans. We are all disruptors hurtling toward one great screen, breaking the iron-fisted hold that other tech firms want to impose on us. The hellscape dystopia world of Apple’s famed “1984” commercial modeled after George Orwell’s seminal dystopia 1984 never really came to pass. As silly as it is to say, Apple was right. We didn’t win some nebulous liberation, exactly. We won a whole different soup of tech-based dystopia. – Kyle Barr Read More