Get Inside Your Body - by Inkwell and Sherry Ning
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How to seek wonder in the age of machines
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. — Aldous Huxley SCIENCE FICTION OFTEN DEPICTS dystopia as a future where machines become too human. The story goes like this: technology gains consciousness, turns its cold gaze back on its makers, and decides we are inefficient, too sentimental, or just obsolete. Then, it rebels. The humanoid enslaves. Alas, humanity is brought to an end by its own creation. But this trope misses the bigger threat: the real danger is not that machines will become like us, but that we will become like…
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