Program or Be Programmed

You probably know some people, who are more emotionally invested in technology than people. They wait in line for the latest gadget. They proudly wear the brand of a technology company. Rather than talk to another human being, people use technology to Share, Like, Tweet, and Pin. First, you wear technology. Then, you ingest. Are you ready for the next wave?

Program or Be Programmed will go on a visual, and hyperlinked exploration, into the intersections of technology, artificial intelligence, user experience, spirituality, consciousness, creation, surveillance, cybernetics, mind control, mysticism, life extension, aliens, space travel, super humans, and Jesus. Join this session as a Paul Goode goes on one artist's journey to find answers to life's most stubborn questions.

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10. Kurzweil believes evolution provides evidence that humans will one day create machines more intelligent than they are. He presents his law of accelerating returns to explain why "key events" happen more frequently as time marches on. It also explains why the computational capacity of computers is increasing exponentially. Kurzweil writes that this increase is one ingredient in the creation of artificial intelligence, the others are automatic knowledge acquisition and algorithms like recursion, neural networks, and genetic algorithms. ! Kurzweil predicts machines with human-level intelligence will be available from affordable computing devices within a couple of decades, revolutionizing most aspects of life. He says nanotechnology will augment our bodies and cure cancer even as humans connect to computers via direct neural interfaces or live full-time in virtual reality. Kurzweil predicts the machines "will appear to have their own free will" and even "spiritual experiences".[1] He says humans will essentially live forever as humanity and its machinery become one and the same. He predicts that intelligence will expand outward from earth until it grows powerful enough to influence the fate of the universe. About: The Age of Spiritual Machines
13. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth- shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. ! C.S. Lewis in a preface to The Screwtape Lettters
20. Corrupted / Manipulated 6 electron - 6 protons - 6 neutrons