To live desiring to be a robot or immortal through
a machine is the sign of a death culture.
Witness The Singularity. Or
Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Why has the
technology we so prize made us inhuman?
What kind of society is it when a human being is single-mindedly
bent on becoming inhuman? If you see the
robot as perfect, then humanity in its organic messiness is the opposite.
If you stare at the abyss for too long, it stares
right back at you (paraphrase). You are a
slave to the robot, don’t you see? The
robot is the master if that’s what you desire above all else.
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