FUTURE ART: trancenergylove

Future Art

trancenergylove

© 2002 Ian James

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Trance-Energy-Love

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This audio CD contains sampled material.

Effects of Information Technology on Personal Computing or
Post Ebay.com Renaissance

First lets talk about technology. What has she done for us? Does she not blend so perfectly with modern medicine to create life? The more important question is how she was born though. She was created, given birth to should we say, by humankind through a natural progression of collecting knowledge, storing it in digital databanks, and making the machines do our work for us.

Since then, machines have always surrounded us. They drive and fly us around the world, they calculate our income for us, they entertain us with computer games, music channels, porn websites, and anything else a conscious being could imagine.

First we have created machines, then we fell in love with them. We began to conduct extensive research to produce silicone chips - can you see similarities with a human cell? - that eventually became perfect. Indeed, we did it because perfection is something that a human organism unfortunately lacks. So one day, everything just fell in place, the great puzzle was solved. On that day a Human Machine was created, a being created in our own image to help us finally understand ourselves.

Perhaps life on Earth is no accident, and a human race may have been created to serve the same purpose as a Human Machine. The main point is that we were created for a certain purpose, and soon, blood began to rush through our veins to give us oxygen, to let us breathe, to let us live. Such beautiful creatures we were! We could walk, communicate across many languages, we could paint and write beautiful songs praising God and life, we even had opposing thumbs that were genius inventions of evolution.

Divinity surrounded us. We lived in peace and prosperity until the experiment of life went awry. You see, we began to notice that our environment has an effect on our lives, so we began to observe things around us. We began to record our history by describing what was happening around us. We wrote books about forces of nature, about physics and mathematics, about biology and chemical processes, and about our behavior.

We became self-aware, aware of our actions and aware of our awareness. We liked and enjoyed what we experienced but somewhere along the way we acquired some bad habits. We acquired a taste for power and became control freaks. We wanted to manipulate everyone around us for our personal benefit, for our personal enjoyment.

We acquired a taste for blood of other animals and became predators, feeding on freshly cooked but dead flesh to nourish our own bodies. We also acquired the taste for money, and our ambitions clouded our reason. "Damn the instinct!" we shouted in rage, "We have intellect that's worth infinitely more. Don't believe us? Here's proof! We shall undo life." Indeed, they had proof in the image of a bomb personally made by Human Machine that would destroy their own kind and their mechanistic creations in one swift blow. Human Machine, loyal to her creator to the end, fulfilled the last and ultimate wish of humankind.

This apocalyptic story may just be nothing more than a random thought generated in our minds, but technology definitely has its uses today to help us understand more about our psychology.

We can gather experimental data and use computers to analyze it and to store it in our virtual knowledge banks. We can create reports and queries, print out the data, or extrapolate our findings to predict human behavior. We can basically use computers to manipulate information in any way we want and it would not be considered unethical or inhumane because we manipulate machines, which cannot think without our direct intervention.

Machines are not human and we don't have the obligation to treat them fairly. Yet we get so much in return. Computers allow us to cure diseases and to make medical substances that help us live healthier and longer. We can use synthesizers to create the array of sounds that would make a violin feel envy if it could feel.

A computer monitor can display a high-resolution picture that a human hand could never be able to reproduce, that is without the involvement of a floppy disk. Blending of mind and machine is a natural progression for us as a human race. We are in the final stages of our evolution.

But the actual process of our technological progression is actually in the beginning stages of its development. Currently, we are heavily experiencing with the successful combination of Internet and personal computing, both products of information technology.

Internet by itself is a virtual knowledge bank, but combined with lightweight laptops, pocket palm pilots, and flat screen consoles on every corner, we will have created a very powerful tool that will help us become more technologically advanced over a relatively short period of time. This concept borders on "upgrading" ourselves as a whole, as we blend seamlessly with machine, expanding our brain and memory capacity like a 100 Gigabyte hard drive.

If we ever were to become so technologically powerful, we would not be afraid of even a biblical flood - our Noah's Ark shall be an indestructible space shuttle, carrying in itself a virtual bank of data about every single species known to human kind, information about the way to reanimate all of them through genetic manipulation, and powerful tools to make it happen.

Information technology and personal computing is the first step in our technological evolution. The concept of personal computing is meant to be the experience of humanity collaborating with a machine on personal and enjoyable levels.

What human, in their right state of mind, would want to deal with a junky operating system without an adequate help manual? On the other hand, personal computers will become progressively more "personified", that is, they will have certain human properties such as the ability to talk back to us, touch-screen and interactive abilities, and perhaps even a preprogrammed personality. We do not want to deal with bug-ridden operating systems of the past that have no personality and cause us lots of headaches.

Instead, we want to open up that shiny new laptop to be greeted by the happy Digitalis OS (Operating System) that would teach us information about our world. And it would feel like she is excusing herself to go to the ladies room when she urgently tells us that she needs to reboot. And how many of you would let her go by pressing that Yes button on her flat screen? And once she comes back to connect us physically - not simply visually - to the virtual world wide web where reality becomes digital, then humanity will truly have evolved.

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  • Interesting
    author: Neptune

    Interesting record ! There were a lot of great tunes that I enjoyed ! I heard some original stuff that I had not heard before ...which is what i expect from independant music ! On the other hand I would say that some songs uses too much well known samples ... where I would prefer to hear so more new sound :-) Also the CD is delivered with no nice pack to decorate your CD case. But for that price, go for it !

  • Peacemakers Listen Up
    author: DJ Aqua

    High quality educational material about Gatecrasher culture, history, and meaning.

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