ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.
Multiplex is an experiment, an experiment that will be on going. An experiment in publishing as I am not a professional writer nor will it be likely any contributors would be professional writers. Much of the content for Multiplex will be direct results from first hand empirical research that I am personally working on or other researchers are working on. Multiplex will also follow the work of other great researchers that are inventing new technology or new uses for existing technology.The experimental nature of Multiplex means that content can be dense and sparse at times. What we won’t do...
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The Exclusive Brian Roemmele Interview On The “You Have 5000 Days: Navigating The End Of Work As We Know It”, The Midas Plague.
<p>Imagine a future with overwhelming abundance resulting from effortless production where individuals are mandated to consume excessively. The implications of overproduction challenges us for meaningful choices rather than mere consumption.</p><p>Listen to the exclusive interview of Brian Roemmel on the latest in the 5000 Days series:</p><p>PART 30: THE MIDAS PLAGUE</p><p></p><p>Why did he discover the lost 1965 movie and the 1954 novella and write about it?</p><p></p><p>Read more at ReadMultiplex.com</p><p></p><p>If this podcast offered you any value, buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele<...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 30: The Midas Plague.
<p>Frederik Pohl's 1954 novella, "The Midas Plague," envisions a future marked by overwhelming abundance resulting from effortless production, which resonates increasingly today as AI and automation become pervasive. The story depicts a world where individuals are mandated to consume excessively, revealing a disturbing inversion of wealth having everything yet lacking true agency. As society grapples with the implications of overproduction, the narrative challenges us to engage in meaningful choices rather than succumbing to mere consumption. </p><p>Seventy-two years later, as artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics begin to replicate that same cheap, tireless production on a planetary scale, Pohl’s st...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 29: The Creation of the Humanoids.
<p>What if I told you that a low-budget, dialogue-driven, 75-minute B-movie shot in 1960 and released in 1962 had already run the entire simulation. Complete with post-apocalyptic labor abundance, synthetic reproduction, emotional symbiosis between humans and machines, mind-uploading, and the inevitable cultural backlash? The Creation of the Humanoids is not merely a quaint relic of Cold War sci-fi. It is a razor-sharp, eerily prescient philosophical blueprint for the exact world we are now entering.</p><p></p><p>It predicted humanoid robots rebuilding civilization while humanity drifts into purposeless decadence. It foresaw “rapport”. Deep emotional and even sexual bonds between flesh and...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 28: The Skulking Permit Effect.
<p>When Lost Colonies Must Invent Vice to Satisfy a Decaying Empire.</p><p>In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd machinery of bureaucracy and the quiet horror of lost history quite like X Minus One’s “Skulking Permit.” First broadcast on NBC on February 15, 1956 (and rebroadcast on July 4, 1957), the episode adapted Robert Sheckley’s short story from the December 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It remains a razor-sharp parable about how autocratic thinking devours memory, how isolation can breed innocence or oblivion, and how the rediscovery of one’s true origins can shatter a...
ReadMultiplex.com: A 1956 Forgotten Radio Satire of Empire, Amnesia, and the Fragile Future Utopia
<p>In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd machinery of bureaucracy and the quiet horror of lost history quite like X Minus One’s “Skulking Permit.” First broadcast on NBC on February 15, 1956 (and rebroadcast on July 4, 1957), the episode adapted Robert Sheckley’s short story from the December 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It remains a razor-sharp parable about how autocratic thinking devours memory, how isolation can breed innocence or oblivion, and how the rediscovery of one’s true origins can shatter a civilization’s self-image. Today, as we stand on the cusp of an AI-mediat...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 27: Open Warfare.
<p>In the golden age of science fiction radio, when rocket ships roared forth from the warm glow of vacuum tubes, futures arrived one static-filled episode at a time, and the airwaves still carried the electric promise of tomorrow—X Minus Onequietly broadcast a revolution. On January 23, 1957, Episode 85, “Open Warfare,” adapted by Ernest Kinoy from James E. Gunn’s May 1954 Galaxy Science Fiction novelette, entered the ether. Clocking in at just over twenty-one minutes, this deceptively compact drama contained the complete architectural blueprint for the collision we are living through right now: the instant when perfect machines step onto humanity’s most pro...
ReadMultiplex.com: 1957 Saul, The Robot That Almost Won A Bet
<p>Open Warfare, January 23, 1957)</p><p>This 1957 radio show was,adapted by Ernest Kinoy from a story by James E. Gunn, a talented but struggling professional golfer named Saul falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy, intellectual elitist. The father firmly believes that athletes are intellectually inferior and refuses to allow the marriage unless Saul can prove himself by earning a substantial sum—specifically by winning a high-stakes golf tournament against the father's sponsored champion. What begins as a seemingly straightforward sports drama quickly reveals deeper layers as Saul confronts not just a superior opponent but a challenge th...
ReadMultiplex.com: The Rise of AI “Trendslop”. It’s The Training Data Stupid.
<p>The data we choose to train AI systems on today is quite literally going to shape the strategic intelligence of tomorrow. You do not want to be asking a sycophant for advice on how to save your your relationships, health, business or the world. You want to build, or at least utilize, something that relies on structural truth. Researchers Asked AI for Strategic Advice, They Got Trend Slop in Return. To briefly summarize our journey today, we start out with the striking discovery of strategy trend slop by the HBR researchers. We uncovered the root cause of that slop...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 26: I Feel Poor!
<p>Have you ever noticed how the most miraculous things become completely infuriating the moment they stop working perfectly? Consider the device you are likely using right now to read or listen to this. It possesses more raw computational power than the entire infrastructure that sent humanity to the moon. In the 1980s, equivalent processing power would have cost millions and required a gymnasium-sized facility with massive cooling systems. For the first week it feels like pure magic. Then the battery dips, a page loads four seconds instead of half a second, and physiologically you feel stressed—angry at the mi...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 25: The Desk Set Prophecy.
<p>In the long arc of our collective story, certain artifacts from the past arrive like messages in bottles, washed ashore from a time when the future was still negotiable. Desk Set (1957) is one such relic, a shimmering, color-saturated romantic comedy that, beneath its champagne toasts and typewriter clatter, delivers a precise, almost eerie blueprint of the tensions now unfolding in the Interregnum. This is not mere nostalgia; it is a distant warning, encoded in laughter and light, about the precise mechanics of technological displacement, corporate rhetoric, human resilience, and the quiet triumph of the irreplaceable. </p><p>Seventy years...
