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(Ted Talk, 2011)
Death, and the surge of the technological singularity as an post-mortem effect, still holds a strange fascination over the changing perspective and understanding of the social landscape. As each individual of this modern society, we are each surfeited with man-made objects, devices and gadgets, that act as a supplicant to the original host, objects that are an extension of ourselves. From the earliest concepts of the written word in alphabet, an technology and tool were utilized as a storage retrieval device in replacement of memory.
Social media, and the supportive inter-networks of applications, software, and platforms that grossly fatten this leviathan of communication, is yet another supplicant of the human host. As the aphids swell in number upon the newformed sprout, farmed by the farmer-happy ant, so does that these gadgets, serving to feed others, drain that which nourishes the human (life) condition.
The network community of social media, another adaption, essentially, of the community of human beings throughout the history of mankind, creates these series of occurrences of infinite answers to questions, and questions to answers. Which, only serve as a undercurrent of the limited range of understanding.
In conclusion, our association with the external world, of nature and biology and physics, are interpretations within a “human” context. We are, simultaneously, imprisoned by our socially-impressed restraints, and yet the freedoms that we choose, is the choice to which of these bondage we consent to doom ourselves to.
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