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If you thought of “dystopia” as a remote future possibility, political commentator Nina Schick — who describes herself as “half Nepalese, half German” — would like you to know that you are terribly mistaken. It is an integral part of our here and now since the environment we live in is nothing short of an “infocalypse”. She borrows this coinage from American technologist Aviv Ovadya, who used it in 2016 “to warn about how bad information was overwhelming society, and asking whether there is a critical threshold at which society will no longer be able to cope”.
Schick’s new book,
