Okay, the Great Facebook Experiment of Oh-10 seems to be working. I even learned about RSS feeds yesterday. I don’t mean to fashion myself as a complete nincompoop when it comes to Internet stuff, it’s just that I only care about the Internet when it can give me things I need. Like pants. I need new pants. Give me pants, Internet.
You really can’t even blink without the Internet passing you by. It makes me think about the “singularity” (have you hear to this?!). A handful of futurists (and maybe one particularly prominent one whose name escapes me) are predicting that the rate of change will continue to accelerate exponentially, leading to a point where change happens so quickly that it will be indiscernible to human intelligence. In other words, artificial intelligence will supersede human intelligence, unless we augment human intelligence with artificial intelligence. Yes. Robocop. I actually sort of believe all this, but until then? I’m going to continue to be amazed about RSS feeds and attempt to devote more of my time to basement shows and less of my time to mediocre forms of pseudo-communication like Facebook. Oh, and if you haven’t already done so, be Attica! Attica!’s fan! Singularity, here we come.
- Aaron