Here’s the shape of a 21st century I don’t want to see. Unfortunately it looks like it’s the one we’re going to get, unless we’re very lucky.

Shorter version is: there will be much dying: even more so than during the worst conflicts of the 20th century. But rather than conventional wars (“nation vs nation”) it’ll be “us vs them”, where “us” and “them” will be defined by whichever dehumanized enemy your network filter bubble points you at—Orwell was ahead of the game with the 2 Minute Hate, something with which all of us who use social media are now uncomfortably, intimately, familiar.

• Uncategorized