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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A 30‑Year Prophetic Lens on Technology, Media, and the Environment
An analytical piece that revisits Wallace's speculative masterpiece, highlighting its surprisingly prescient predictions about video‑call culture, beauty‑filter mania, addictive entertainment algorithms, and environmental disaster, and how these themes echo current realities.
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