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Big Tech • September 27, 2026

How Big Tech Became Too Big to Regulate and What It Means for Your Money

In Blade Runner, Eldon Tyrell does not spend much time worrying about governments. His corporation manufactures the artificial workers on which an entire off-world economy depends. Tyrell does not operate within the system so much as occupy one of the layers holding it together. We used to watch that and think: dystopian science fiction. We […]

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Movies & TV • May 10, 2026

Blade Runner Was Right About Everything

Ridley Scott’s noir masterpiece wasn’t just a great sci-fi film. It was a 40-year prophecy about AI, surveillance, megacorporations, and what it means to be human. Table of contents Los Angeles, 2019. Sound familiar? Prophecy #1: AI that passes the Turing test Prophecy #2: The Tyrell Corporation predicted Big Tech perfectly Prophecy #3: Surveillance, identity, […]

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