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RE: Singularity drawing in watercolour and #anitpost revealed: The World of the Machine.
Well it is true that hip replacements and what have you are quite prevalent among the elderly, but our kids are generally 100% organic. What I find a little preoccupying is that we don't know the eventual results of certain medical practices in the long term. Somehow I always think Nature will win out, and rather than merge with machines, we will merge with her. Guess I am just an eternal optimist.
Who can know the future? I think it will continue to enter our lives not with a bang but with a soft cry to 'convenience'. We have shown that we can go from no phones to basic phones to needing our 'computers in our hands' at all times in under a decade. When the implantation of data receptors become an 'easier way to get connected' we might not be turning back. But, again, who can say?
Yes this does appear to be the current tendency. But I like Terence McKenna's idea of the emergence of novelty; life will always be unpredictable. Isn't it funny that in these times of "anything goes" art has become so prudish? So many contradictions.
I also find it an odd contradictory time in that we hear about 'all inclusion' all the more and 'celebrating differences' yet when I see facebook, I see people rallying into camps and not even wanting to talk or converse with others who have differing views or politics etc. It is indeed an odd time. Perhaps far too much data for organic beings at once is just not always a good thing :)
Yes, it is curious, this desire to define oneself as belonging to a particular group, and at the same time insisting that we are all alike and equal. So many contradictions. I avoid political conversations on the web because they become so venomous; people are incapable of polite disagreement or courteous exchange of opinions.