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And I\u2019m here to report, unqualified<\/a> lo that I am, the essential first steps the mind took into the digital world, into digital technology, which is clearly an evolutionary phenomenon, even more profound than any \u2018age\u2019 like bronze or iron or middle, because of its velocity, and the velocity it causes the mond to take. (dick points out that digital technology is causing the world<\/em> and the mind. \u00a0The velocity digital technology causes the mind to take, to move through its iterations and inventions faster and faster. \u00a0We are going to have to let go of ideas of corporeal authority, of the permanent self, of singularity. Online avatars already represent as well as personal presence, despite the fact they don’t describe the same you’s). \u00a0We become observable as mass data, as an All One that dislocates aspects of the Self from the body, amalgamates them in The Internet. \u00a0What we say things are, how we name and call them, reflects and reiterates the shape of the mind that named it, of the Self.<\/p>\n

How to be alone is going to become a lost art, as well, and sooner than apps\u00a0get invented.<\/p>\n

Since machine has become my memory, I can no longer tell what the calendar looks like just by blinking. \u00a0I don\u2019t bother with a memory for it anymore. prittee trusting. Not enough attention is being paid to a social discussion about how to regard technology. For instance, people might think of The Internet as an object-based, established phenomenon, like all the other communication media of the past, Telephone, and Television, and Railroads. But The Internet is not a noun. The Internet is a set of possibilities, it\u2019s a canvas of bodiless ones and zeros, established by and escaped from a world of organic matter.<\/p>\n

Like Derrida pointed out, the word ‘reality’ is a noun. \u00a0Being a noun most certainly\u00a0means being a thing, like a building, Derrida offered. Using a noun to name reality causes us to assume that reality is a thing, with certain defined thing-truths and ways of specific being that make it whatever it is. and worst of all, the smallizing of the possibilities for noun Reality, in that we do not usually think, sorely inaccurately, of ‘things’ as morphing or in process, but rather as staid and determined, segmented from all the doings around it that made it what it is. then we expect the Great and Cosmic Reality to fit snugly inside a word? a noun<\/em>? and not even wiggle?<\/p>\n

Machine\u2019s like,\u00a0Why<\/em>? You have to tell them why \u2013 because we want, red flag style, not to miss opportunities, possibilities. \u00a0We are, for example, making The Internet proprietary. \u00a0I remember the light bulb going on when as a child I heard that Native Americans thought land ownership was an absurd idea. The idea that it wasn’t even poss<\/em>ible to contain land with an act of ownership.\u00a0The Internet is a form of connection, an energy. \u00a0In these earliest days of permanent evolutionary change, The Internet is being branded and law-ized and partitioned and mines and yoursed. \u00a0But The Internet is like electricity. \u00a0like, and as, and nothing without it. \u00a0The energy that makes the mind be and go keeps making for itself better and sleeker vehicles. It\u2019s only today\u2019s problem that Digital Communication needs live hosts, fleshly originators of the directives of being. And it doesn\u2019t care what we think of The Internet because we\u2019re just pretending its meaning, while it discovers itself and invents new skins that only partially involve us\u00a0cyborgs.<\/p>\n

This point about morality is a huge nexus of consideration about AI \u2013 \u00a0what can<\/em> we instill in The Machine? \u00a0What kinds of perspective fit in the digital process? \u00a0Whether humans maintain moral decision making, do we teach the drone to swerve based on mass, or monetary value, or species, or medical viability based on statistical information our chips emit? We might struggle and fail to remain with the machines \u00a0We take a role in Machine, as the source of the moral factor as a way to maintain user relationship with the machine, because without morality, AI isn’t really serving us. \u00a0It’s just functioning. \u00a0Unfortunately, morality is so hotly contested among humans that a most likely moral instillation is none, the digital equivalent of agree to disagree.<\/p>\n

there’s power in the gaze alone, and The Internet makes the world a panopticon to itself. Whether or not it is considered a responsibility, we are in these very few first years for establishing a basic shape of The Internet in society. I\u2019m not just talking about wresting it from the claws of censors \u00a0– censorship crying \u2018use less<\/em> of the resources!\u2019. \u00a0I\u2019m talking about using it, inventing it, keeping on learning to navigate in new and free ways, finding ways of being with it. For example, these avatar selves are one day going to have an uprising, calling for the voices they have all along spoken to count as ‘reality’. \u00a0when money can be made in cyber transactions, is that not the very mark of ‘reality’ in babylon’s own terms. \u00a0and its participants functioning in it avatars as real as typists<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t be very long, if it hasn\u2019t already become mostly the case, before devices can be shut down at the will of an authority that is necessarily, due entirely to the way we are presently fitting The Internet into Society, devices can be shut down at the will of an authority that is necessarily politically affiliated with your internet service provider. And so while we are so gleeful that solar chargers finally exist, what good will they do darkened machines? \u00a0When you buy a car with a television in it do you think that the tv isn\u2019t a Trojan Horse with a mic and a camera trained on you, that is electronically married to your ignition and your fuel injectors, connected to your favorite life-giving noun, The Internet? And I\u2019m not even radical. Not even stockpiling flip phones. If your response uses the word \u201cpassword,\u201d please hang up and dial 1-800-box-orox.<\/p>\n

Your smart phone necessarily connects your life into The Internet. Don\u2019t \u2018password<\/a>\u2019 me. \u00a0you bank on there, write all your mails, take pictures, you are emitting a constant tracking signal. There is no such thing as the kind of \u201coff\u201d that your blender or your lamp have. Smart phone is never \u201coff.’ \u00a0But sometimes its battery dies. Though, it has to have been dead seven layers of neglected, geological uncharged time to not retrieve even the clock time. which is fed to it on an entirely different wetly system, in case you thought there was only one. These are just facts. No need to read in frantic Lewis Black delivery.<\/p>\n

If your answer is to live outside this controlled Internet, is to not carry or use these devices, please hang up and dial 1-800-recognition software. Pretty soon it will be required that we register our irises and fingerprints to be able to pass through any airport security. Right now it\u2019s optional not because it\u2019s optional, but because it\u2019s being tested before the dizzying volume of data has to be handled. Now I\u2019m shaking my finger a little bit like Lewis Black. but after the airport security then it’s going to be we have to register this bio print, the iris the fingerprint, register them in order to bank.<\/p>\n

So, the fact is, no matter what you think<\/em> you deserve in terms of personal freedom to move around, make purchases, and interact with the world in almost every way, no matter what you damn well deserve, more than that, you better hope<\/em> the entity that controls your internet is at least benign to you. Machine is so cute and dusty playing me Neil Young\u2019s The Old Homestead, but homesteading the hidey hoarding way isn\u2019t the same in a drone world, is it.<\/p>\n

Finger wagging<\/p>\n

Then Machine proposes to escape such ubiqui-veillance by living the slow life. But there is no “off the grid.” That went away with the size and scope of the new form of connection and communication, The Internet.<\/p>\n

What kinds of information can be carried digitally? What can be created from ones and zeros? And what\u2019s the desire, what\u2019s the objective? We are One with Machine, we\u2019ll be using it to our benefit, we say, in nearly full confidence that when we thank for what we desire, we create it.<\/p>\n

At the top of my gratitude list are the people I love, scattered all over the planet, in various states of living, like Walter Benjamin\u2019s manuscripts \u2013 poor Benjamin, sending his \u00a0manuscripts hither and yon in paper envelopes, at the mercy of the blustery world, to farther away friends and colleagues. I wonder what he hoped about which of his papers would survive. But it\u2019s not just about survival of the writing, it\u2019s about TLDR \u201cToo Long Didn\u2019t Read,\u201dabout \u00a0the Reader. (since when can an acronym contain a contraction? bring me my oxygen.)<\/p>\n

Are there creative energies in digital technology? What is the energy that can be harnessed? Or is it a vehicle, a conduit, for an outside energy? There has to be a distinction between the message and the medium where this question resides \u2013 the energy potential lies in the meaning, in the thought behind the sign, the one or the zero in long, long, lines, that have to be abbreviated, symbolized \u2013 and how language remains gradual, analog, rheostatic, the best tuner for the energies, the most subtle \u2013 and as AI, sorry machine, fails to apprehend any kind of morality, (which we think is tragic but, tree falling in forest, if morality is never a concern then another navigable system develops, and nothing\u2019s feelings get hurt) It’s not like morality served us all that well. \u00a0how peaceful has it been?<\/p>\n

Do you<\/em> got a map to the next joint?<\/p>\n

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