Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transhumanism, Postbiological Evolution, Image Scanner

• 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 a wide variety of spectacular lies. World continues to appear as an immense accumulation of technologies. We are told repeatedly that time is a straight and pre-determined line. Technology is the motor propelling us along this line. As we continue along this line, we will eventually achieve our destiny. By which i mean, the singularity is a myth presently instrumental to political mobilization on behalf of the powers that be. When we talk about the future of technology or the future of humanity or our destinies, we are not really speculating about the limitless possibilities that are open to us. We are closing off a whole range of possible futures in favour of a fiction that would allow us to continue to develop the world in the way we are. Proponents operate according to a set of principles that they rarely question.