tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post6655351718518221958..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Organized Transhumanism and the Force of Futurological DIscoursesDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-77576084405480986392011-09-19T13:37:56.301-07:002011-09-19T13:37:56.301-07:00> [S]elf-identified "transhumanists" ...> [S]elf-identified "transhumanists" are. . .<br />> saying things that have great appeal. . .<br /><br />Especially to the extent that they're marrying more-or-less<br />contemporary technology (computers, things made out of<br />teeny-tiny stuff) with the Ayn Rand ethos (which was kind<br />of fixated on the railroad era). Not that the typical<br />>Hist taste in SF doesn't still have a somewhat retro<br />flavor to it.<br /><br />> I would say not that “Intel [is] acknowledging the<br />> plausibility of the technological singularity” so much<br />> as that Intel is finding the figures and frames and<br />> formulations of singularity discourse congenial to<br />> its purposes.<br />><br />> I think the reasons for this congeniality are pretty<br />> obvious (rather like the pretense in so many of their<br />> television commercials that intelligent robots hobnob<br />> with coders in their employee cafeteria. . .<br /><br />Hey, robots sell vodka these days.<br /><br />You've gotta love the Svedka fembot (the latest one of these<br />billboards is currently looming large over the 495 approach to<br />the Lincoln Tunnel in Jersey).<br /><br />http://dailybillboard.blogspot.com/2011/03/bonus-day-svedka-vodka-billboards.html<br /><br />R. U. Bot or Not?<br /><br />(Relationship status: on the rocks.)jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com