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
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