Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Teleology, Postbiological Evolution, Transhumanism

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B
• Professor: Warren Steele

Document Summary

We live in a world which is determined by the large accumulation of technologies. A lie, representing everything that is wrong in how we think about and engage with technology . A technified myth presently instrumental to political mobilization on behalf of the powers that be. Future of technology is discussed in conduction with the future of humanity, our faith in technology will permit us to realize our destiny . Figures such as ray kurzweil may be directors, engineers, and professors emanating brilliance, yet are blind to the reality in which they advocate. Every idea produced by these guys is always in some way the same, their ventures celebrate the world as it is. Stretches the claim that capitalism is awesome which dominates our perception of time and destroys our knowledge of the past. Promise of individual freedom and limitless power characterizes the way we consider the capacities of technology.