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I think you are giving a lot of credit to agencies who have
proven they deserve none such...the occurence of
prophylactic law enforcement and the unwillingly wired (a
means to physical slavery) makes me think that your biotech
solutions are half baked and ignorantly optimistic...I agree
that enhancement through electronics might be a good thing,
but I disagree that the leaders and elite who run the world
now have the upward evolution of human intercourse and
discourse as their main goals...they are slave makers and
require slavery to instill within themselves a seemingly
much needed superiority feeling. Your denigration and
labeling makes me believe you wish to distance yourself from
those who would defy your masters. Thats a common enough
trait but is simply an elitist mindset of the haves who are
scared shitless of being have nots. Little concern is given
to the economic welfare of the mass, afterall, the mass is
there to serve, no? Prey. It Works!
Conspiracy is one of the most punished of all activitys
in government and business today because it works so well.
It derives from Dynastic (Read Feudal/Futile) thinking. It
is the bane of our race and is rooted in simple vanity...I
cannot see a way out of that as all the implants and
enhancements will basically amplify vanity. As long as
there are people concerned with creature comforts, the human
race will be nothing more than creatures.
Bill Gallagher
luxefaire.com
ric carter wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (j) wrote:
> > "ric carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ># BREAKING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER. International scientists test a
> > > translation system that can convert the babble of up to six lan-
> > > guages. Curses too? A wearable version is aimed at travelers.
> > > Get THAT one implanted fast - see
> > > http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20747.html
> > >
> > >: Do you want to be wirelessly, seamlessly wired into the entire
> > > world, with no language barriers? Should we all be? Will we become
> > > a group-mind? When?
> >
> > *WE* are the "Borg" ... no getting around it. Becoming
> > "wired" to greater and greater degrees will not be imposed,
> > it will be DEMANDED by the public. Each level will enhance
> > personal and national productivity. The un-wired will fall
> > behind and become neo-trailer-trash.
>
> Chip Delaney wrote about this in BABEL-17 about 35 years ago - the
> un-wired become the dispossessed, riff-raff, possibly justifying their
> self-disenfranchisement with claims of "cultural purity". But, just
> as cretinists will have no place in the biotech revolution, those who
> shun Borgification will be irrelevant to the integrated global economy
> [economy <-- oikonomia <-- household rules]. They probably won't even
> be able to find fulfilling careers in the food-service and building-
> maintenance industries, and will only have an impact on the rest of
> mankind via intermittant terrorist acts. Meanwhile, that "rest of
> humanity" bunch will be immensely productive, protected, proactive,
> and swarm out into the universe. Will we leave Terra to ther dim kin?
>
> > If you get a hundred people together, you get a "tribe"
> > and spend your days looking for lizards under rocks.
> > If you get ten thousand people together, you get a
> > "civilization" and math, science, literature, philosophy
> > and art flourish within just a few generations. Get a
> > billion people more-or-less together ... do you get some
> > new and neat-o emergent quality ... or do you just get
> > the kind of pointless bickering we see on usenet ? One
> > consequence of "connectedness" is *distraction* -
> > inadequate mental bandwidth. There may not *be* a "next
> > level", at least not for "natural" humans.
>
> So, we're breeding/building some fast-evolving silicon intelligences
> that we'll do our best to integrate within our [bioengineered] selves
> - or will they take off, supplant us, as Hans Moravec and others say?
>
> And as bioengineering and cognitive enhancement and Borgification lead
> to a net of silicon/human/cetacean/simian/protean intelligences, will
> concern for "natural humanity" be relevant? Pretty soon we'll be able
> to rebuild ourselves into whatever race/gender/species we want, and
> all the current debates about ethnicity/sexuality will be on par with
> arguing about counting angels on pinheads [measure the width of the
> pin; measure the width of the angel's arse; divide a by b] or debating
> whether evil is a substance and will it splash on you - y'know, usenet
> stuff. #8-) The next important questions may be: who goes Borg first?
> Can we get off-planet fast enough to avoid biosphere meltdown? Whose
> philosophical coalitions will control which moons, which quadrants of
> the asteroid belt and Oort cloud, which paths to galactic expansion?
>
> Conspiratorialists may blame the upcoming changes on Illuminati or
> Bilderbergers or Jewish/Marxist/Satanist/Reptilioid forces or such.
> Hah. People with the chance to participate in these changes will, as
> you point out, DEMAND to be included in Borgification, because that's
> the best shot at immortality, empowerment, meaningfulness, relevance.
> Transformation is inevitible. Resistance is futile.
>
> Ric "I am Dyslexic of Borg - your ass will be laminated" Carter
>
> * Reality is whatever bites your ass * http://i.am/nutz *
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