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Inside: You were promised a jetpack by liars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/

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A cartoon image of a jetpack-flying man waves hello at a gap-toothed, awed young boy. Beneath them in the corner, a sinister figure with huge, hypnotic-spiral eyes works the switches on an imposing control panel. On his desk is a copy of Amazing Stories with the same rocketeer. In the image background is a faded, halftoned image of the NYC 1964 World's Fair.
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Cory Doctorow
TONIGHT (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics

Register here for this IN-PERSON event hosted in San Francisco at the Internet Archive on May 17 Moral panics about technology are nothing new for creators. Copyright, in particular, has been a fav…
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Jakub Narębski
In regards to "The dancing robot on stage at the splashy event is literally a guy in a robot-suit" I can only say WTF? Boston Dynamics had created human like (and dog like) robots, and they work.
Clayfoot
Not a jet pack, but the GEN H-4 personal helicopter showed promise for awhile. Unfortunately, it was more profitable for GEN to supply its innovative engines to other manufacturers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDC8Cs5gmqc

GEN H-4 vol7

ゲン・コーポレーションが開発した一人乗りヘリコプター『GEN H-4』のデモフライト映像Demo flight at Matsumoto airport of the GEN H-4, the World's smallest manned helicopter, developed by GEN Corpora...
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Shambolic Matter
Obviously it would be bad for a stoned asshole to fly around over my head with explosives strapped to their back. That's why I'm founding a startup that'll give free jetpack rides to Series A investors at the next Burning Man
Stefan Ihringer
A great read!

In one sentence it says „Golden Age stfnal dreams“. Is that a typo or an abbreviation/reference I don’t get? 🤔
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