> I feel like if you took some old science fiction writers from back in the day and showed them this article, you would find sheer awe in their faces too.
I can't tell if this is satire. The science fiction writers from back in the day wrote about humans exploring other planets, building sentient machines, encountering aliens or maybe developing psychic powers. (looking at you two, Philip K. Dick and Theodore Sturgeon)
Building the world's biggest ad-serving infrastructure might impress them. It impresses me! But "sheer awe" seems a few orders of magnitude off the mark.
I'm getting downvoted here but can't for the life of me guess why. If you've actually read Isaac Asimov and his peers, as I have, they wrote about robots with complex inner lives and space ships that traveled to alien civilizations. There is no reason whatsoever to think they would experience any more "sheer awe" at Meta's infrastructure than any other random person from their time period. I honestly think they would be disappointed that it was all done to sell advertisements to people rather than to help humanity explore the universe -- or anything else of actual value.
I can't tell if this is satire. The science fiction writers from back in the day wrote about humans exploring other planets, building sentient machines, encountering aliens or maybe developing psychic powers. (looking at you two, Philip K. Dick and Theodore Sturgeon)
Building the world's biggest ad-serving infrastructure might impress them. It impresses me! But "sheer awe" seems a few orders of magnitude off the mark.