strobe morphing advertisements that are trained to adapt to your unique reaction(s) until it detects the same facial response as the last time you made a purchase. botox, masks, camouflage tattoos, permanent smiling, IR obscurants. the arms race begins a new. benevolent dictatorship by self regulating machines is probably going to plague us for several thousand years. wouldn't that be interesting, if the last evolutionary bottleneck is getting smart enough to create an enclosed planetary system that fully satisfies your biological needs and suppresses all intangible ones so there is no reason to go any further up the chain of exploration.
stopping death means stopping life, every generation is more forgetful of the past than the last. the light ages will be far more destructive, what could possibly motivate you to stop a perpetual pleasure machine? how do you prevent the inevitable conflict between those who insist pain and suffering is an essential part of the human experiment and those who just force them to feel good and change their mind? what will happen to these toddlers in 10-15 years? they will have grown up interfacing with some electronic device for every single day of their young lives, a different type of consciousness shaped by destruction of self-confidence in their own knowledge and memories and a complete trust in the needle-finders of big hay.
this shift will be as important as pre-writing to post-writing, except the transformation won't take centuries and millennia to propagate itself across the planet. a post-memory world, with every human enslaved by their base sensations. the first US president who is an internet addict.
"[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
That's a strongly pessimistic view you got here. Are you aware that there's people thinking the opposite of you? The thing is: the reality is always far more balanced that what the extremists are preaching us.
is being disagreeable sufficient claim to argument?[0]
is there a profit motive in balance?[1]
people with vast weapons of control, deception and war shape reality, is it balanced?[2]
stopping death means stopping life, every generation is more forgetful of the past than the last. the light ages will be far more destructive, what could possibly motivate you to stop a perpetual pleasure machine? how do you prevent the inevitable conflict between those who insist pain and suffering is an essential part of the human experiment and those who just force them to feel good and change their mind? what will happen to these toddlers in 10-15 years? they will have grown up interfacing with some electronic device for every single day of their young lives, a different type of consciousness shaped by destruction of self-confidence in their own knowledge and memories and a complete trust in the needle-finders of big hay.
this shift will be as important as pre-writing to post-writing, except the transformation won't take centuries and millennia to propagate itself across the planet. a post-memory world, with every human enslaved by their base sensations. the first US president who is an internet addict.
"[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
the future is a fate worse than death.