2013-05-11
Original: 2013-05-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Single panel:
Bald, bearded man (speaking): "Dammit, as technology improves, powerful people have more and more ability to use private information against citizens. Wait... I've got it! What if each individual creates so much worthless worthless data that the system can't be effectively used against us?"
Woman with brown hair (speaking): "Impossible. No one would ever participate in such a system."
Caption below the panel: "Before the Internet."
Votey:
A man sits in the dark in front of a glowing computer monitor. The screen displays a webpage labeled "Reddit.com".
Bald, bearded man (speaking): "Dammit, as technology improves, powerful people have more and more ability to use private information against citizens. Wait... I've got it! What if each individual creates so much worthless worthless data that the system can't be effectively used against us?"
Woman with brown hair (speaking): "Impossible. No one would ever participate in such a system."
Caption below the panel: "Before the Internet."
Votey:
A man sits in the dark in front of a glowing computer monitor. The screen displays a webpage labeled "Reddit.com".
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A bald, bearded man talks excitedly to a skeptical brown-haired woman. He says: "Dammit, as technology improves, powerful people have more and more ability to use private information against citizens. Wait... I've got it! What if each individual creates so much worthless worthless data that the system can't be effectively used against us?" She replies flatly: "Impossible. No one would ever participate in such a system." A caption beneath reads "Before the Internet." In the votey aftercomic, drawn in stark black-and-white, a person sits alone in a dark room illuminated only by a computer monitor that displays a page labeled "Reddit.com" — revealing that people do, in fact, eagerly participate in producing endless worthless data.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.