2023-02-24
Your - our - dystopian micro-future awaits.
Patrick Wood, having studied it for years, is probably the most informed person about technocracy, and here he offer us an exploration by Spartacus of the possibilities, in more depth than many may care to fathom.
When they talk of synthesis of the organic with the digital, they are not stopping with nanoparticles ...
I'm writing this on a somewhat clunky old-fashioned computer that takes up a nowadays unwarranted acreage of my available desk-space - but this form of desktop can still be bought by gamers sold on extracting the last vestige of speed to drive their all-consuming passion. At a cost of course.
But by engineering it at the molecular level instead of the scales currently possible with today's silicon-chippery, it could be reduced in size to something rather more like - say - a fingernail. And by integrating it into the body's DNA as a biodigital construct it could be connecting directly with the brain's visual cortex, doing away with that tiresome consumer of expensive power, the monitor.
We could live directly within the metaverse without those clunky unsightly goggles and ear-pieces ...
Or so the theory goes.
Given our medical professional's somewhat rudimentary understanding of how the human body works, this may seem impossibly advanced, but one can readily imagine these days that medical training no longer includes the most advanced knowledge available, or anywhere near.
The mystics of old believed / still believe that our 3D reality is nought but an illusion ... perhaps they have a point, and we are already a form of enhanced biodigital DNA that simply floats in a vat somewhere, deceived by its sensory inputs to think it lives in a 3D universe which has no existence in reality ... but what IS reality? Is it simply whatever we can be persuaded to believe it is?
Of course the racist stereotype in the woodpile here is that our constructed realities would have to somehow communicate with each other, and arrangements made for procreation - but I'm sure there's an expert somewhere already working to solve this problem.
So is "believing" simply a result of constructing our own mental model of our "universe" from our sensory inputs? In which case, surely we can indeed construct our own universe?We could be building universe within metaverse here ... but please try not to get lost down the pseudo-reality hole.
