Perhaps I've read too much William Gibson, but there's definitely a part of me that thinks if I watch that video I will come down with some kind of Tourette's syndrome.
I mean, obviously we're not going to see a physical virus that enters as sensory information --
Wait. ... Are COVID and anti-masking part of the same replicator-complex? ... I see how anti-masking helps COVID. But how would COVID help anti-masking? I don't see how. ... Ok, probably not.
-- but that book's concerns seem incredibly prescient.
What disturbs me most is how L. Bob Rife, the bad guy, in his one and only monologue, in a TV recording (weird how he never appears in person), seems to... basically be correct.
In Neuromancer and other Gibson novels, cyberspace bleeds into real life - Case becomes trapped in cyberspace by an AI, Armitage has a personality constructed by the same AI when he's actually a mental case named Cortez, etc
