diff --git a/posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco b/posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco index 10d0231..1fe63d3 100644 --- a/posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco +++ b/posthuman_technocapital_singularity.myco @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -> "Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives in the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. The Machine develops - but not on our lies. The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die. Oh, I have no remedy - or, at least, only one - to tell men again and again that I have seen the hills of Wessex as Aelfrid saw them when he overthrew the Danes. +> "Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives in the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. The Machine develops - but not on our lies. The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die. Oh, I have no remedy - or, at least, only one - to tell men again and again that I have seen the hills of Wessex as Aelfrid saw them when he overthrew the Danes." In brief, the posthuman technocapital singularity is the point in time at which compounding improvements in technology and economic pressures remove humans from the loop of self-improvement and rapidly render them irrelevant/nonexistent. According to most people, this is [[bad]]. It is believed that the concept was [[invented]] by [[Nick Land]], although nobody has actually read Nick Land. It can be understood in more detail by considering each component.