I think a lot of time when the Torment Nexus thing is brought up, people are getting the arrow of causality the wrong way around. It's not that necessarily that Bobby Techbro read "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" and was inspired to make one, even if that's what the marketing tries to sell it as.
No I think that's not giving scifi authors the proper respect as futurists. They looked at how things were going and thought "man, this might lead to a Torment Nexus" and then wrote a story about that.
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silverwizard
@Foone🏳️⚧️ Gibson looked at the 80s and went "this is fucked and bad" and then got invited to talk to orgs telling him "We're trying to build the future of your books"
(I'm not disagreeing with you, but that sticks with me when I hear the Torment Nexus thing)
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Ian Douglas Scott
•This is definitely true.
Though also, if people are naming their companies things like "Soylent" and "Palantir", they do seem to be somewhat influenced by fiction. And getting the wrong message.
Steve Schwinghamer
•Favourite example of author-as-uncanny-futurist:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_11_15/
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
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•And they were right. A Torment Nexus did get built, it just got named after the one in their book because of the obvious precedent.
Had they not written the book, the Torment Nexus would still exist, it just would have been called the TechCo.io TortureHub instead.
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•Jeff Grigg
•'We have created The Torment Nexus, inspired from the award winning classic scifi dystopia "Please Don't Build The Torment Nexus".'
is a really odd marketing message for something they would have built anyway.
Rodney
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