![]() ![]() ![]() This is the dream of the integrated post-human, of the merged homo sapiens electronica, not a new idea but one which seems more visible now. ![]() We dream that we will not have to conform our internal, perfect visions through the crude medium of physical action or the crude linearity of vocalizations. Machines are dumb tools, hard to use without training, inanimate or at best barely-intelligent materials with which we either communicate vaguely and clumsily, or we endure countless hours adapting our natural patterns and mental conditioning to accommodate the tyranny of atoms, the unyielding physical matter.īut the dream holds thus: we are entwined with the machines, they are extensions of our thoughts, able to respond with ease to what our true meanings are. ![]() For me, it’s all three, a statement of the desire to have magic-like powers as machines are finally transformed from external servants to entwined extensions. This is the dream of an increasingly larger number of people, the nightmare of a vanishingly smaller number, and the unlikely possibility to the vast majority. In the future, our brains will be merged near-seamlessly with computers… ![]()
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