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Part of the Great Weirding essay collection

Venkatesh Rao
Feb 13, 2021
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Part of my Great Weirding essay series.

In the first essay of this series (Into the Weirding, May-June 2020), we took a whistle-stop tour of the events of the Great Weirding (2016-20), leading up to the sustained disorienting condition I labeled the Permaweird. In the second essay, (Control Failure, Aug-Sep 2020) I argued that growing technological compl…

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