Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture 9: MIT 2500 Week 9 - SINGULARITY
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Live in world determined by spectacular lies from the powerful so that we do not question. By which i mean, the singularity is a myth presently instrumental to political mobilization on behalf of the powers that be. Operate to assumptions that none of them ever question. Choose to stay on this right track, then the universe will be ours. Those who believe in the singularity see it as destiny, and do not see it for what it is. Presents us with vision of the future that is framed as perfect and inevitable. The singularity is an image of the future, but is not the future. A dream that benefits the few to the determent of the many. Presented as an indisputable good that presents itself in a way that says everything. This dream is always differed always said to happen not now but soon. Time is sold to us as a road to utopia technological development leads to the.