Abstract
Digitization has made nearly every aspect of human life computable, and specifically, by way of computation and increasingly clever algorithms, the creation of any image is possible. The application of this technology towards any image and sonic media, combined with speed and mass communications could lead to a form of totalitarianism, the loss of history, and the end of truth.
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