PARABLE OF 2029

"Perhaps the most bizarre and least understood weapon of the Conspiracy is TECHNOBOREDOM. (...) Technoboredom manifests itself in the subliminal-reality areas of the frontal lobes of the brain and causes the person to garner intense satisfaction from comercial insanity. TC Commercials, toys in cereal boxes and other similar "Con-particles" bring about an almost sexual enjoyment to the adherents of the doctrine of Technoboredom. There are also massive, conspiracy-funded Technoboredom Centers in all areas of the world masquerading under the thin guise of universities, libraries, and cultural-activities centers. "

(STERNO; 13013)

"So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them."

(K. DICK)

"The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for many decades, and scientists have just delivered their verdict on whether we’d be able to control a high-level computer super-intelligence.

    The answer? Almost definitely not. The catch is that controlling a super-intelligence far beyond human comprehension would require a simulation of that super-intelligence which we can analyse. But if we’re unable to comprehend it, it’s impossible to create such a simulation."

(TOO COOL 4D)

"Elon Musk invests in Anime? Why do you wanna live? What's the point? At least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with trascending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion.

    For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape. Like to New Zealand while reading 'Sidenotes On The Apocalypse'. Stonks."

(2 COOL; Pata-No UNLTD)

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