On Paul Giamatti and the Present Future
Yesterday I was nerding out, watching some NatGeo show narrated by Paul Giamatti. It's incredibly interesting the ways we are choosing to engage with technology. Call it eyeglasses, a prosthetic hand, an exoskeleton, or a neurochemical, there seems to be a certain need of humans to go forth, beyond limits and augment the experience of any event, even the lenght of human life.
What seems insane about this near future sometimes is just the proper (or maybe careful) resistance of our minds about becoming hooked to media that are really alienating in a way. Haven't we had enough with mobiles you might say? What will happen when this technology becomes an inner part of our body? What will Augmented Reality give back to reality? Grasping invisible objects, signaling towards secret engagements, hidden worlds more tailored or suited to our expectations. Will we become happier if we erase uneasiness, sadness, pain, rejection, sickness, bad memories away? After all, our brains are just another set of electrochemical processes that have been definitely touched and refined through science.
To engage as we used to understand it, is becoming harder with so many revolving doors seducing us to explore not one choice of life but several parallel ones.
Maybe because we are living longer we can become eternally undecisive, restless teenagers avoiding to fix the world we have and rather create new unexistent perfect ones? Is it because there are so many of us that we regard some lives as disposable?
This Age is supposed to place men at the center of the Universe and above all living things. But I wonder if a cyborged world is all we are able to imagine because we haven't had time to think of other alternatives or creating a new economical system to support them?
I guess amongst this pile of questions, one sticks out, now that the future is here, what is the next ethical thing to do?
What seems insane about this near future sometimes is just the proper (or maybe careful) resistance of our minds about becoming hooked to media that are really alienating in a way. Haven't we had enough with mobiles you might say? What will happen when this technology becomes an inner part of our body? What will Augmented Reality give back to reality? Grasping invisible objects, signaling towards secret engagements, hidden worlds more tailored or suited to our expectations. Will we become happier if we erase uneasiness, sadness, pain, rejection, sickness, bad memories away? After all, our brains are just another set of electrochemical processes that have been definitely touched and refined through science.
To engage as we used to understand it, is becoming harder with so many revolving doors seducing us to explore not one choice of life but several parallel ones.
Maybe because we are living longer we can become eternally undecisive, restless teenagers avoiding to fix the world we have and rather create new unexistent perfect ones? Is it because there are so many of us that we regard some lives as disposable?
This Age is supposed to place men at the center of the Universe and above all living things. But I wonder if a cyborged world is all we are able to imagine because we haven't had time to think of other alternatives or creating a new economical system to support them?
I guess amongst this pile of questions, one sticks out, now that the future is here, what is the next ethical thing to do?
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