a live https://youtu.be/rjLUlqJP3WU VIDEO http://www.alansondheim.org/live.jpg (a future before the Char within and without the Char the grit a gift of a future, gift in the Char) (Digital Virus and the Extinction of Life, comments) "Someone somewhere thought I was referring to the time when computers take over from humans, but in a way I'm talking about something smaller and more imminent, the splattering of the digital everywhere - and digital response times for example which are faster than delivery systems. So X fires a hypersonic payload towards Y; Y can't stop it but a fast digital switch returns the same. Preventive strikes turn into catastrophe and World War III lasts ten minutes. Look at Paul Virilio on 'dromology.' "I'm taking a cosmological view - why not a universe of signals as well as noise? And I think the answer is that of the _incandescent speedup_ of the increasingly microscopic - automation, no time and space for negotiation, something goes dark - "I'm not sure what to say; I'd want to talk to a physicist. For me it's not the main issue, which relates to a prevalent increasing speed and presence of digital control structures of all sorts. If you have a hypervelocity or hypersonic missile, you have an ideal destructive weapon. If you finesse disease vectors, you might create ideal poisons and plagues. The more you create, the cheaper it might become, and the more these tools will fall into the hands of 'bad actors' etc. and the more the scorched-earth policy will become commonplace. I'm writing sloppily, too little sleep and doing too much and family issues as well, but you get the idea. Total control is dead/death. Years ago I wrote an essay called 'Annihilation: To the Limit!' which was published in a number of places - I still feel there's truth in that unfortunately, as the globe totters towards severe shortages of clean air, water, food, space, education, hospitals, you name it. And we're just on the lip of what most likely will be a catastrophic fall and failure/s -" Thanks to William Bain as I try to work this out as an inverted top-down characterization of 0-degree response digital culture. If the evidence from the universe is an absence of signals, the cause must lie not only in the nuclear (or possibly disease vectors), but also in mutually annihilating response-times: in other words the continuous development of the digital and quantum computational tending towards a collapse of classical response altogether; instead, again, the immediate and imminent Event, resulting in absolute silence and the Char. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
