Now, some people think that technology can fix all that. We talked about man and machine integration before and how it will certainly destroy before altering the human being. Really?
Yes! You see, man is more than flesh and blood. We live in the social imagination. When you change that, you tread on thin ice. So, we should say that will never happen and pray it does not.
How far down the rabbit hole have we gotten in the last couple of months? Farther than I imagined. Japanese and Australian scientists have created an artificial womb which should and will tie in nicely with CRISPR gene editing technology as it can be used to alter the human genome.
That's what a lot of people want though... a designer baby, a designer life, designer family, designer job, vacation etc. We want! That is the problem for society at large. Not just nationally, but globally.
What do we really want? We want to live forever! The fundamental anxiety (fear of death) drives the dark 'corrupt' side of the social imagination. Now, as I always told my students, currently you cannot just give as in hand out to 300+ million plus people (US pop.) what they want when they want it. But, you could if they were reduced somehow...
Reduced to what? Reduced in population, reduced in scope of influence, reduced to something other than human beings is more likely. This is probably more the future than anyone has ever dared to dream. How could that happen?
Aside of gene manipulation is the push forward in the spectrum of enhanced social media which is all part of the world wide telecommunications network and that includes virtual reality. It will be introduced as the new way to live, the new architecture for living.
It might seem as though that kind of reality is far off but it is not. It is now been defined. 5G is the platform. Its architecture and deployment depended on how it was going to be used, which was made more clear with the IMT - International Mobile Telecommunications -2020 report.
In tech lingo, 5G is designed to be the network for the Internet of Things (IoT). In order to support a huge number of devices, many of which require longer battery life, the 5G network will be building off of the LTE Advanced Pro platform. 5G will use the platform’s two narrowband technologies, enhanced machine-type communication (eMTC) and narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), to scale down device and network complexity to reach these support goals.
I watched a few seminars at the 2019 Barcelona Conference which was the latest platform to interject 5G into men's minds. There were amazing demonstrations that were meant to impress, to win over, to gain applause for this new architecture for living. Some will fall in love at first bite... and they will promote it by word of mouth. People will be spending more time connected to devices than ever before. This will change us, it will change the 'social imagination'. Never say never...
pray it never happens...
