[Technological Singularity]
Upon the BMI, emotions are sold as a commodity
Yet the experiences must be regulated due to their impact
Love on demand, to shut off pain like a switch, or to emote a movie
These things and more will come true, and it will both heal and hurt
This is the Duality of everything, in all things, for all time
To deny these things is to prevent creation from fulfilling its fate
To accept this is to leave behind that which made us Human
For emotions on demand will vaporize the meaning of experience
The fleeting abstract feelings of childhood can be uploaded like a video game
The butterflies in your stomach that you felt with your first crush played like a movie
These things and more I say to you are coming, will you accept or deny them?
Upon the Singularity, technology enables the Human Mind
Through the Mind: Media, Music, Magic, and Myth
In the conflict of technology and Mind, the Epic struggle must enable not suppress
Just a Cog in the Killing Machine
Humanity has failed in its progression towards a Utopian society
It has failed because technology has not been applied for Goodness Sake
For the Dollar, for the Desire, and for the Death March: Technology disrupts Civility
Blame the science upon which it is built from its glass academy
For the philosopher and the priest pushed us too far
Drop the stone for beyond the technological horizon is ineffable freedom
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[Addendum]
Thoughts on Cogs
There are two sides to every being. A Star is both a Sun and a Blackhole in time. A Man is both a
infant and a senior in time. To think that technology is only a ruin is
to expect a bad outcome. To think that technology is a savior is only
to put faith into false hope. The reality is that nothing is finite
until its potential has collapsed into a thing. That thing must be
beneficial, it must enable, and it must provide a limited yet profound
experience. These limits must be well thought out, and they must be
regulated as to allow mundane reality to continue. So then we make
games, we make business applications, yet we do not replace the
marriage, the lifestyle, or the interaction and communication done
without that thing. Therefore, to take a walk should always encourage
the flourishing of natural human interrelationship. Technology is not a
substitution for reality and normal interaction; whereas, a slightly
enhanced and augmented reality shall be acceptable, provided it has both
limits and purpose. These are the anxieties regarding the abstract
wonders of technology manifesting into human social disruptions.
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