[tehchromic]

Ugly business is industrialization. I suppose it's seems to be the most noble application of technology to avoid the techno-horrors of the past in the future. But there are always newer, greater techno-horrors emergent. In fact, one might say that techno-horror is a fundamental emergent property of the universe.

[zwkrt]

Any technology (physical, social, philosophical) we create has the ability to wreak havoc on equilibrium (natural, societal, or otherwise). We are fundamentally unequipped to restore equilibrium because that process takes the unwilling participation of all agents. So I think all technologies have a way of creating an existential threat, obviously some more than others.

My own internal sci-fi version of the future involves us creating replicating but non-intelligent technology that outlasts us.

Another free sci-fi premise while I’m on a roll is consciousness becoming such a good interpreter of reality (that sees everything so clearly) such that it evaporates. The map has become the territory.

/confused rambling

[itsthecourier]

You mean, because by observing everything we affect it? Like Heisenberg's uncertainty

[notgoodrobot]

Interesting ideas. Would you expand on your last point? We're you meaning an artificial consciousness becomes so good at interpreting the things around it that the consciousness itself evaporates?

[lob_it]

Diversification is an interesting innovation in the 21st century.

Getting stuck as a head-in-a-fishbowl doesn't sound that appealing :/

[INTPenis]

The only horror here is shit employers and bastard politicians who don't care for worker's rights.

[bus85]

It's time to join a union HN