meanderings

flight path

5 years from now

aerial cameras will be so small cheap fast and out of control

they will fly in and out of our houses

10 years from now they will

flick in & out of our mouths

pores, thoughts, lives, memories

flocks of them, mountains of footage,

assembling & distorting in algorithmic heaps

autonomous raw phenomenological data

“The fact is that our present course is a non-sustainable course … and the outcome is going to get resolved within a few decades … “

“…at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.”

The Simulation Argument
Nick Bostrom
Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University

“…the real change we must confront and understand is not a new selection of canonical great books but, as our expressive radical moves from print to screen, a new conception of human reason and how Western culture creates and transmits it.”

The electronic word: Democracy, technology, and the arts, Richard Lanham (1993)