What do you mean?

Relevant quote from Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World”:

[The 1939 New York World’s Fair’s president] Grover Whalen - a former corporate executive, New York City police chief in a time of unprecedented police brutality, and public relations innovator […] had convinced Stalin and Mussolini to build lavish national pavilions. (He later complained about how often he had been obliged to give the fascist salute.) The level of the exhibits, as one designer described it, was pitched to the mentality of a twelve-year-old.

It was the style at the time…

Ray Ban them.

Wait, I have another one

Obelix pants? Really?

Hoth calling

We have all the time in the world…

You mean the Moops.

That was disturbing.

Average redditor speak.

If life gives you melons, make melonade.

I’m reminded of “Johnny Mnemonic,” the 1995 movie. From IMDB:

In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerative effect called “nerve attenuation syndrome” or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS.

It seems to me that AI is the real “virtual internet” here.
Although rather unrelated to the topic at hand, I also liked this quote:

… [Henry] Rollins, who is uninterested in science fiction, joined the cast because he liked the film’s focus on an upcoming disadvantaged underclass.

I’m getting flashbacks to the knife dildo from the movie “Seven.”

No shit?