Hi Chad >My friend the artist Michael Caputo and I were discussing this motif of Man >and his Tools, under the context of Hal 9000 and Arthur C. Clarke's in >terpretation of how 2001 in a critical commentary man's collective history >with tools, and a possible future whereas these tools become an appendage, an >extension of environmental intelligence, something that increases man's >intuitive interpretation of a world whereas his primitive senses are able to >only detect a minute semblace of the wide swath of reality. I think the
and a human-built sensory device along with human interpretation of the output of that device is somehow MORE connected to universal truth? You only have to look at all the historical blunders in technological implementation to see that human senses are not a secondary back-up device -- Oedipal reactions or not -- they are the primary way that one interacts with the world. Even if one wanted to live a totally augmented life, one could not. Of course the DOD shows keen videos of robotic 'soldiers' with definite killing potential, but show me a territory that can be held by only machines and not a human infrastructure on the ground, and I'll believe we have crested a new evolutionary synergy with machines. Preferably I won't be around to enjoy the utopian pleasure of that society. >vector we are headed on is machines as appendage. The narrative has already is the tail wagging the dog or ... ? >Google as a application of universal knowledge is bounded by the depth of our universal? please make that universal minus me -- I'd rather not be implicated in such a sweeping universe -- I know I'm a dolt, but hey, if there is such a thing as universal knowledge, then EveryBody is implicated, help! something about re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic... >own dynamic of sense possibillities. It's not like we have extraterrestial >intelligence or some other form of superintelligence that is funnelling data >into Google providing a extended array of knowledge architecture for us to >dissect and analyze. right, it is clear that there are humans riding the tiger, though it's not clear if anyone is really in control! CHeers, JOhn # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
