September 28, 2009
In a recent post on his blog, Wired editor Chris Anderson talks about how we are fated to make the future:
Technology wants to be invented and we are almost powerless to stop it. We are hard-wired to create the future, be it good or bad. Invention is its own master.
Inspiration to make things better.
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“We are hard-wired to create the future, be it good or bad. Invention is its own master.” The inevitability that our technologies will infinitely progress has been obvious for a very long time. Everything we invent takes us one step closer to mastering our environment, and this line of thinking always takes me to this Brion Gysin quote from The Process:
“Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: ‘What are we here for?’ is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the Riddle of the Ages has actually been out in the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few people run fast enough. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I’ll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!”
Developing technologies that have the potential to destroy us, or leave us behind as totally insignificant to the furthering of AI’s goals, are just two of the bets we have to make as we roll the dice towards our eventual migration from the planet. We mastered the water, land, air and now we are pushing towards space. And without the singularity, this next phase of human evolution might be impossible.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:50 am