It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

Re:It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic ill... by muwtyhg on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:56PM (#28304676)

What book are you referring to?

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Re:It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic ill... by yeezyseezy on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:04PM (#28304800)

Not Gibson, but Snow Crash comes to mind

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Re:It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic ill... by FooBarBizBazz on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:20PM (#28308446)

That book is going to turn out to be prophecy.

I mean, obviously we're not going to see a physical virus that enters as sensory information --

Wait. ... Are COVID and anti-masking part of the same replicator-complex? ... I see how anti-masking helps COVID. But how would COVID help anti-masking? I don't see how. ... Ok, probably not.

-- but that book's concerns seem incredibly prescient.

What disturbs me most is how L. Bob Rife, the bad guy, in his one and only monologue, in a TV recording (weird how he never appears in person), seems to... basically be correct.

Biomass.

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Re:It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic ill... by someguy321 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:16PM (#28316899)

On the money.

I read Snow Crash about two years ago and the theme of virality increasing as dynamic systems get larger feels all too real right now.

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Re:It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic ill... by SamBam on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:34PM (#28308019)

Head-desk. That's exactly what I was thinking of.

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Re:It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic ill... by mewse-hn on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:22PM (#28305026)

In Neuromancer and other Gibson novels, cyberspace bleeds into real life - Case becomes trapped in cyberspace by an AI, Armitage has a personality constructed by the same AI when he's actually a mental case named Cortez, etc

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