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"Civilization is entirely the product of phonetic literacy. As it dissolves with the electronic revolution, we rediscover a tribal integral awareness that manifests itself in a complete shift in our sensory lives....This new electronic environment itself constitutes an inner trip, collectively, without benefit of drugs. The impulse to use hallucinogens is a kind of empathy with the electronic environment." - Marshall McLuhan
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Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer

“it’s important to understand that my work — even in the sense of the long-term goals that I was doing software verification as the first step towards — was not actually focused on AGI as we use the term today. Rather, as the name of my company indicates, it was focused on creating machines with enough common sense to relieve us of the tedious aspects of the human condition as we know it today, but not to rival us (let alone exceed us) in the creative sense. I’m still quite doubtful that it would, in fact, be desirable to create machines with sufficiently general intelligence to merit being considered as conscious.”

—Aubrey de Grey on “The Singularity” and “The Methuselarity”
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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. - Marshall Mcluhan hdtv (via astrocruzan)The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. - Marshall Mcluhan hdtv (via astrocruzan)

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

- Marshall Mcluhan

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“Video Landscape (flowerpot)”, 1974 by Ernst Caramelle. via vvork

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pictografica: Visual dialog with other tumblistas No. 3 [left] TV Buddha, 1972, Nam Jun Paik and [left] Bodhi Obfuscatus (Pacific Rim), 2007-8, Michael Joo from here and here More about Nam Jun Paik here or here pictografica: Visual dialog with other tumblistas No. 3 [left] TV Buddha, 1972, Nam Jun Paik and [left] Bodhi Obfuscatus (Pacific Rim), 2007-8, Michael Joo from here and here More about Nam Jun Paik here or here

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Visual dialog with other tumblistas No. 3

[left] TV Buddha, 1972, Nam Jun Paik and [left] Bodhi Obfuscatus (Pacific Rim), 2007-8, Michael Joo from here and here

More about Nam Jun Paik here or here

pictografica: sunyata:iheartmyart: Michael Joo, Bodhi Obfuscatus (Pacific Rim), 2007-8 Video installation. A halo of surveillance cameras around the Buddha, lit with fiber-optic lights cast a series of projections onto screens that surround the sculpture. pictografica: sunyata:iheartmyart: Michael Joo, Bodhi Obfuscatus (Pacific Rim), 2007-8 Video installation. A halo of surveillance cameras around the Buddha, lit with fiber-optic lights cast a series of projections onto screens that surround the sculpture.

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Michael Joo, Bodhi Obfuscatus (Pacific Rim), 2007-8 Video installation. A halo of surveillance cameras around the Buddha, lit with fiber-optic lights cast a series of projections onto screens that surround the sculpture.

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The Limits of Control by William S. Burroughs

“An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be approximately 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate). The “returns,” such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially. There’s even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth. This exponential growth is not restricted to hardware, but with accelerating gains in brain reverse engineering, also applies to software. Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, allowing nonbiological intelligence to combine the subtleties of human intelligence with the speed and knowledge sharing ability of machines. The results will include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, downloading the brain and immortal software-based humans — the next step in evolution.”

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Are We Spiritual Machines? Chapter 1: The Evolution of Mind in the Twenty-First Century by Ray Kurzweil

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DAVIS: Mr. Dick, the world has only been getting stranger since you left us. We are surrounded with clones, identity theft, patented genes, faster-than-light particles, Aibo, and obsessive virtual gaming. Some scientist in England promises to build a chip called a “soul catcher” that will sit behind your eyeballs and record your life. Doesnt all this sound strangely familiar? DICK: Over the years it seems to me that by subtle but real degrees the world has come to resemble a PKD novel. Several freaks have even accused me of bringing on the modern world by my novels. DAVIS: How exactly would you characterize those novels? DICK: My writing deals with hallucinated worlds, intoxicating and deluding drugs, and psychosis. But my writing acts as an antidote, a detoxifying, not intoxicating, antidote. (via 21C Magazine)DAVIS: Mr. Dick, the world has only been getting stranger since you left us. We are surrounded with clones, identity theft, patented genes, faster-than-light particles, Aibo, and obsessive virtual gaming. Some scientist in England promises to build a chip called a “soul catcher” that will sit behind your eyeballs and record your life. Doesnt all this sound strangely familiar? DICK: Over the years it seems to me that by subtle but real degrees the world has come to resemble a PKD novel. Several freaks have even accused me of bringing on the modern world by my novels. DAVIS: How exactly would you characterize those novels? DICK: My writing deals with hallucinated worlds, intoxicating and deluding drugs, and psychosis. But my writing acts as an antidote, a detoxifying, not intoxicating, antidote. (via 21C Magazine)

DAVIS: Mr. Dick, the world has only been getting stranger since you left us. We are surrounded with clones, identity theft, patented genes, faster-than-light particles, Aibo, and obsessive virtual gaming. Some scientist in England promises to build a chip called a “soul catcher” that will sit behind your eyeballs and record your life. Doesnt all this sound strangely familiar?

DICK: Over the years it seems to me that by subtle but real degrees the world has come to resemble a PKD novel. Several freaks have even accused me of bringing on the modern world by my novels.

DAVIS: How exactly would you characterize those novels?

DICK: My writing deals with hallucinated worlds, intoxicating and deluding drugs, and psychosis. But my writing acts as an antidote, a detoxifying, not intoxicating, antidote.

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