Dinosaurs

Imagining a post-literate future

First, there was a new series on Netflix titled The Dinosaurs. It’s a mostly AI-generated four-part pseudo-documentary about the rise, domination, and fall of the dinosaurs over a period of 165 million years in Earth’s prehistory.¹

Then Sam Kahn posted about what’s gone wrong with fiction.

Then you took The New York Times quiz, in which you were asked to c…