The one our physical bodies inhabit.įrom here, I believe there are two important questions worth considering in more detail: George Dyson calls this Analogia, a state in which the digital universe begins to assert its own controlling logic over more and more of its external analog environment.
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The birth of these machines gave rise to the digital universe, which is simply the connected network of these computing machines whose hardware and software continue to rapidly evolve new and powerful capabilities and then deploy them at a global scale. The 20th Century also gave us the birth of the VonNeumann computing machine and explosive growth of its instantiation as an electro mechanical computing machine. Huxley, in Brave New World saw technology as a tool that could provide such tailored enjoyment as to be the ultimate human pacifier of both conflict and spirit. Orwell, in 1984 envisioned an advanced total surveillance state instantiated by tools of mass surveillance. For Stapledon, in The Other Earth advances in technology were used for individual comfort, driving individual laziness and conformity, and for propaganda and war. However, each of these universes point to humanity’s misuse of their tools. But, these are now old stories when set against the pace of scientific, technological, and machine evolution. The 20th Century gave us the utopias and (more commonly) dystopias of Stapledon, Orwell, and Huxley. We visited with several 20th Century thinkers, that, I think, helped set the stage for our current collective imaginaries about our lives, our societies, and our relationships with our machines.
In Part I of our saga, we visited with many of our orienting themes.
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