Tag: Literature
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The AI Winter Cometh
The AI Winter Cometh (Because Winter Is Always Coming for Yesterday’s Disruption)—In Which Even the “Next Big Thing” Gets a Pension Plan— Let’s get real: AI is already wearing dad jeans. You heard me. The same neural nets that once felt like rogue agents hacking the creative matrix are now just corporate middleware, churning out…
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The Internal Clock
The internal clock—the rhythm of attention and expectation honed by our optimized cognitive processes—demands precision. A narrative must hit its emotional or intellectual beat at just the right moment to captivate the human mind. Television series, by their very nature, are purpose-built to meet these demands. Unlike books, which are often sprawling, open-ended, and subject…
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The New Turin Tests
It’s curious, isn’t it? The oblique complexity of Joyce, Deleuze, Faulkner, Proust, Burroughs, and Pynchon—their sprawling, fractured narratives and arcane syntaxes—once barriers to entry, now serve as the final measure of human intellect. They have ascended from their status as difficult, inaccessible tomes to become something more insidious: the Turing Test of the human mind.…