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Anon (2018) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Anon
director: Andrew Niccol actor: Clive Owen / Amanda Seyfried
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.
July 15, 2026 watched Niccol seems here more interested in building an stylized noir mystery than in exploring the social impact of this tech. But we're talking about tech that combines Meta glasses, Neuralink and Flock (to name a few), if they were made by competent people and worked like their respective techbro-dads dream they worked, so excuse me if I think that angle more interesting than trying to update old movies and make femmes fatales digital.

Not the kind of science fiction *I* wanted to see, so I give it an unfair and totally selfish 👎
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How to build a low-tech internet NeoDB
How to build a low-tech internet
author: Marie Otsuka / Kris De Decker publishing house: Lulu 2023 - 6
We were told that the internet would dematerialize society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a massive infrastructure and a rapidly growing energy consumer. In this series of articles, Low-tech Magazine examines the reasons behind the ever-expanding resource use of digital communication and what we can do about it. The internet isn't an autonomous being. Its growing energy use results from decisions made by software developers, web designers, marketeers, publishers, and internet users. By placing communications in a historical context and with the development of its lightweight, off-the-grid, and solar powered website, Low-tech Magazine challenges our high-tech approach to sustainability and highlights the possibilities of alternative solutions.

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