The Adventures Of Lem(my) Caution Dept.

Paris Review – The Future According to Stanisław Lem, Ezra Glinter

... Lem preferred to depict societies bogged down by excess information and technology. “Freedom of expression sometimes presents a greater threat to an idea,” he writes in his 1968 novel His Master’s Voice, “because forbidden thoughts may circulate in secret, but what can be done when an important fact is lost in a flood of impostors …?” This observation rings eerily true today, but Lem wasn’t only trying to critique modern so...