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An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

  • Written by Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internetFifty years before the architecture for the web was created, Jorge Luis Borges had already imagined an analog equivalent.Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images

How will the internet evolve in the coming decades?

Fiction writers have explored some possibilities.

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