/lit/ - Literature

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and which, to continue the metaphor, is a kind of hell. an understandable hell, but a hell all the same, and one conspicuously appropriate to the ages: Total Informatization driving everyone blind, since now the direct feed into the unconscious of everyone else - that is to say, Twitter - has more or less the effect on us that the Ultraviolence of Clockwork Orange has. one of my favorite episodes of 2019 was watching Brian Stelter appear on CNN to tell us that You Know, We Really Can't Know Anything. this was absolutely necessary to have happen, a magician's trick that would have made even Baudrillard chuckle.

and so i find myself thinking a lot these days about the ethics of a kind of metaphorical blindness, about how it is that we might go about living in conditions of Permanent Binocular Soccer. augmented reality is coming down the pipe next, i am more intrigued by that than purest AI. a version of reality that slides directly down over your eyeballs, cortical modems, your own brain being turned into a kind of constant Wifi hotspot for sending and receiving data around the clock, sleeping and waking, all this: that's all coming. and like so many other things, it will be so pervasive that we will change reality at the same rate we change our perceptions, which will continue to give us that peculiar and familiar sensation of wondering if it is just us, or if anybody else is noticing this stuff also...

https://www.slideshare.net/sardire/augmented-intelligence-is-new-way-forward

a sustainable Matrix, a Matrix that doesn't drive us batshit crazy as we go on haggling over those rare, few, remaining precious scraps of reality left over from the twentieth century are things that are probably worth thinking about now to beat the rush. but how to do this? it's not like these problems will be altogether new:

>Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.

oh those are going to be some blurry lines. which is why the computers will help us sort our pitiable meatbag problems out for us, no doubt in frequently the most hilarious and sadly ironic and tragic ways imaginable.