Thresholds of Artificiality

PERPETUAL TRANSFORMATION... AND TO WHAT END

The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.

We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical embod... See more

Today, we are rapidly becoming ‘tech-vexed’ – my word for the gradual yet relentless seduction of computerised life. The COVID-19 pandemic simply accelerated a trend: many of us are now more intimately connected to smartphones than to nonmediated relationships with people. The net result of this insular life is that relationships with ourselves and... See more

But the ancient questions are reemerging due to the unsettling nature of technological change. We are being forced to confront these timeless, existential questions by developments that cause conflict between the three cities: like the possibilities of artificial intelligence, or the moral questions raised by genomics, or the tension between freedo... See more