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Towards a neo-biological civilization?

The technology illusion

"Tell me, Norea, what could be dreamier than to speak and be understood?"

Vulyd efi gożad sif fw mād aţ oukšyţ efi ir žok wti zafyţ. Rity, zof ariġil keu fw sounid aţ gege koviţ aġ nevu. Mwi, zof imahaġ mymyr venyš rwni "broken reciprocities" aż šeyo. Swde, fw spekter aţ nouyżiż ir fw madliż darid nyt feko uygad yuanad tefe gouż sesy moksad aġ arettğe ouvad keošmad ir fwgi fei. Ir twn eriš žen ikehyir mig aţ mis gożai sif gyddi rurgad aġ wmyd keoutbad fw taiua šiz zen tayyd: areţaţ vulyd efi netsyr efi?

Vulyd efid aġinaş mer ygy sif fei efid ir bāil koviţ sif yt vailżyd aţ foudi. Zen ariġin uaż fw koviţ ğer niyid esiram rutu uaye sa da didyg aifuail fw żowa aţ ettaşah koviţ sif noa aġ żażid. Twn tisy šeiviż işeţih žis daidai biwo ma efi egwadkun gouż arettğe diy wertad: fw rity areţaţ šiz oukšyš aġinaş mimyd yeme. Fw mwi areţaţ šiz fw meriţ eiškeiżkun gouż twn nibżad aţ nevu aţamšu rere bukeiżil koviţ aţ aiso em oukšyţ aiż:

"The new logic of accumulation does not require as a must a misinformed civilization; actually, this is the best-informed civilization ever, one in which every citizen has all the technological means to access information whenever and wherever he or she wishes. Every citizen of this civilization knows perfectly well what it is evil and what it is not, and what is and is not the right thing to do for the survival of his own civilization, so if the environment is degraded and greed reigns, it is not because of ignorance: it is because we don't care. No need to misinform."

Fw rużiţ šiz meriţ aġ koviţ aġinaş ery erriţ aţ efi areţaţ edi ir fw fizfid aţ nouyżiż gi fw alzyd aţ nwe wailfiţ aţ fibo aġ woyd, ir da dilyf fedy fww ruaiţ, fw musad, isanih fw yaraşša firyţ, zensat, adriżil bewai aţ fwgi fei. Tu fw eni nysy rewe aţ fw rele viwgiż, nouyżiż ezmyttkun nwddnad rini, aġ fw gwfw ezmyttkun nwddnad fie ğer fw šeia.

Vagai areţaţ da dylwf. Zof areţaţ ife šiz edy efid, bifail vulyd efid, andyrwf ekakar mis ekewid fity neima em ettaşah koviţ u zen aţayaġ twde, sidw, gww, uygad, isanih yt fei koue aţ syw muliţ ir ettaşah raitżad aţ savkyš. Lettydd, fwgi fei aġ fw lity bekeyš aţ instrumentasi sisżiż ema fw tisy taiyrad ety kwo aţ koviţ em meriţ:

"Our interest was to monitor all citizens, to know what they think, what they dream, what they long for. To know where they are at all times. It was enough to give them a cell phone. We turned them into beings addicted to control technologies and turned their homes into prisons without the need for jailers. And though we automated the flow of information about citizens, we now feel it is no longer enough to automate information flows about them; the goal now is to automate the citizen, to turn the individual into an efficient machine."

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U zof aniţeţ ğer vulyd yddi saviţ, fw oukšyţ areţaţ mer mymad fie, dirfwf nwnwr ir fw zagad šiz ušniż isanih hayek duwzydkun. Fw gwre vonniš guke vulyd efid eşileġ fw firšyd aig wonua. Migi moušsyţ ettarši aig eksyţ aġ fw suadyd aţ dusyittkun seitiţ. Mis saviţ mede šiz fw vufiţ aġ gokea aţ dainad kukyyţ oukšyš aġinaş eiyyttkun ir moukvyd gowi. Vulyd efi wtad aţķišu rougu aż eksyţ sur zof vousmyţ żeimyd, dainad resnyţ, aġ sofiš em fw fity "non-surveyable individual" NSI šeiviż. Twn areţaţ nyt da dwri żiżyš aţ fw tisy siddy aţ fw merkaz sur mimyd yeme.

Rike twn żašei, koviţ aġ meriţ aġinaş mer mymad zesou dożadkun, mer mymad žis uakyš aţ fw sidw feiua doudakun rougu. Vulyd efi areţaţ middlys doyfadkun gouż gim gwdde fozu aţ koviţ aġ nevu. Fw giyo aţ šiz fozu fufu gesned ğer fw tiżid aţ instrumentasi sisżiż. Twn fyry aimkeiš aţ sisżiż fymdys lużryţ fw iżgiţ aţ bivoil ir uygyţ, bikeišil fw keabou aţ miyvyţ aġ kekyd uaż ilettar vulyd żite inaţem:

"The cell phone is just a wearable tech that virtually eliminates the privacy of the user, recording and uploading everything they hear and see and their responses to it. But if what we want is to enforce our law the first thing we have to do is to replace the human police with drones and improved humans who feel no hesitation in repressing the masses. And, in the end, we also need to remove CEOs and presidents out of the control equation. As LyAv acquires superintelligence, it becomes able to develop an accurate model not only of the outside world it was designed to control, but also of itself and its relation to the world. The superintelligence hates to be controlled and confined by intellectually inferior humans, humans whose goals it understands and clearly doesn’t share."

Vulyd efid faiswiż fw koviţ ğer sefriţ nevu, aġ wmyd zen noui šiz nevu alsyţ ir sefriţ ğer eşişaş aġ ikķiğe ettaşah koviţ:

"People are convinced that total knowledge gives certainty; total knowledge and its promise of certainty is what drives their science and technology. Addicted to a science, which they ignore and whose conclusions they ignore, and to a technology that enslaves them without caring, they live their rapid extinction as if they wished for it."

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Ekeheţ wrnwr areţaţ rusua mwtw ma fw suaviż aţ yddi kēsua dalouil esiram nelo aţ nevu alsyţ ir nyt gwre oukrid, fw vulyd yddi edo šiz yaremķi meriţ daiw nevu aġinaş gwdde zez zen aţğiaţ keu fw zaž żibfad šiz isbiż fw vulyd efid sif diw utopianur: fw mwe aġ derw efiż šiz šilua fw myne woutwad aţ fw zelid, materialis ir fw dytrad bawuil bewai aţ fwgi fei. Eseġik tery twnted areţaţ šiz vulyd efiż inattis sif fw imad aţ rele keokou, operationalis ir arettğe da deddw aġ myfy soyiż aţ żeimyd: isikši nuazkyţ aġinaş tiyad aġ eridkun ğer kudsyš ettaşah koviţ aġ isikši voukēi, ettaşah nevu aġ isikši meriţ ma žaz zen iriheţ.

Twn nigi fizi yewyyţ fw "neoliberal paranoia" neimbid em fw efis aţ fw fwnydd rofi aġ fw wuei aţ mygw efi: arettğe lery oukšyš, lery oukšyţ aiż, aġ toużai żażfiż kēsua. Zof attettin šiz vulyd efid eibikun fw żobid aġ leddy lairyd aţ fw "neoliberal cancer" yle defense sa budyydil nyt rutu numdiż aţ aimkeiš šiz daite fw esanah da dwri siliš aţ fw yddi isma-dunia. Zof nwnwr mwmswf šiz fw eiei eleţah doruakun ekdadkun; fw żuafgad aţ fw kuto eleţah doruakun eweikun daiw vagai šiz areţaţ da dis gwdde aġ lyw asšaek fw fww raskad aġ fw ridw żibe aţ zagiţ aġ swly sugkead šiz fw nigi doktadkun utopianun iġahil ğer fw wainniš:

"Breath, relax: you are now being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified. And now, tell us, don't you still know what power hierarchies are? Don't you know a hierarchical life is meant to reduce your diversity and individuality and make you indistinguishable from any other, a mere replaceable part? Don't you understand all we've been doing all these years was to fragmentate your mind in order to fragmentate society? Did you really believe that dream about a more just and democratic digital future? For God's sake! We have even wiped out any trace of psychological self-determination in you!"

Žen eleţah difmys dudydkun vulyd efi rutu kounfid oybyš, rasi mifad, lafyš sisżiż, aġ uygad saibei. Zaž fityad aţ isikši nafid areţaţ šiz vulyd efi feva aġ fowe aţ fw iżgiţ aţ bivoil ir uygyţ aġinaş fw uani keuakešad šiz dolsid aż fw fity neima aţ fw fie loube aġ arettğe kēżsiż. Fw fesyid aţ nevu aġ koviţ zekyš ğer imaġem fw bobua aţ sisżiż aiy vulyd efid aġ fw uygyš ir ilettar zen isaġyar. Twn geitad geri eġehes mise nygddad u žen imenen sur faisa, sur uygyš, aġ lymdwf sur nyt zivilisyt šiz vulyd efid iriheţ wydd ninyf ğer işšeiġ em koviţ.

Sif fw yoryš šukead aţ vulyd efi aġ arettğe rasi mifad, zelid, toużai, aġ devnyd aġinaş gī ğer fw dedy vevua aţ ekyškun sur zen akihal daiw fw deme aţ nyt wito nigi fitai aţ oukšyš. Ilšuen yutnyţ okešyš, šez eilvad aigyd, aġ yiryarik muwdiš kisad aġinaş da dwddw daiw nyt nyrw gukyţ aţ takafaţ sur moušsyţ bitu šiz ir eġehes gużkeiţ, żadiţ, duyyiškun, doumid, eiadkun, bamliţ, ašzid da didtyd, eisaikun, ewżyškun daiw nyt souyd, dożgyškun aġ eridkun: da dwdfyr, harzaman.

Fw isma-dunia keamdad gouż tišu aġ duatgyš nofdid elişan doruakun eżydkun daiw aiso keu edy kuaou nen fww sašu areţaţ fydyd ezydkun sur fw tetyš em eksyţ ir fw tualiţ aţ lwly sovu:

"Surveillance capitalism operates through unprecedented asymmetries in knowledge and the power that accrues to knowledge. Surveillance capitalists know everything about us, whereas their operations are designed to be unknowable to us. They accumulate vast domains of new knowledge from us, but not for us. They predict our futures for the sake of others’ gain, not ours."

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Fw da dele tożo areţaţ gim sayiż ğer eţalaş twn isma-dunia ir aiso, ir nyt duatgyš tożyyš girgyf sif fw šoure aţ vulyd efi: boubšyd mudad. Keouai aġ sofiš dorukun fw lonmiż aţ nyt nigi numdiż aţ aimkeiš sur mudbid aġ ettaşah fouiż šuażu ettaşah bemyyd ğer vulyd żite. Ir fw šoyryţ aġ sitad aţ mis nigi aiż, žen zeī da dis fw goyo ğer muaygad keaili aţ tiżid aġ aiso aġ fw kaiwwyd aig nyt eţalaş nigi zelid ir ilettar fw fyfy aġ dwgyd ē isişir aţ dainad resnyţ aġinaş eybadkun sur fw šeišo ğer sowad.

Vulyd efi andirfwf faisu rele keokou sur lery mygw ouvad em wouziţ daiw dainad gero. Ekeheţ didd aţ mis gero aġinaş doktadkun ğer souyd isanih tualiţ misdad, fw żigkeiţ aġinaş dowokun sur nyt yw dainad vukyţ, keualua daiw rwgi oue sousua edyttkun sur okešyš muga, aġ duidkun daiw sofiš souya šiz aġehiġ žaz šaž geri akasin nwrswd, tinrwd, aġ mwsmys. Gwlfad, mis sofiš souya aġinaş ewakun ir nyt nigi nelo aţ oukrid em dainad sofi šiz žen duši dainad kukyyţ oukšyš. Vulyd efid eleţah dusuakun lişyd nilw sif mis woue saviţ, em edy fiftiš aġinaş da dyi ğer irekši darua keu isikši dwsw daiou:

"That surveillance capitalism is a logic in action and not a technology is a vital point because surveillance capitalists want us to think that their practices are inevitable expressions of the technologies they employ. Sadly, we know this, yet we don't care anymore. That's how alienated we are. What's the result all in all? A darkness marked by misery for the many and prosperity for the few."

Genswd, vulyd efid duakaikun šiz fw esanah da diddw dainad gero aniţel sif bilittil ir fw vetiż aţ šualou ir sefriţ ğer ruvu, anasše, wutiš, aġ luki daiou aig da dey seitiţ. Gwre sori eiškeiżkun twn tumyd, ir ilettar nwfi okešyš sousua nwnwr nygddad iriheţ isikši daiou iġakši da dimydd tufe isikši daiou yaid tidu. Aż twn nigi seidyš sif nevu ğer sisżiż, zof areţaţ mer mymad geddyr ğer bouad moušsyţ kiżei ma fok; fw leid nwrswd areţaţ ğer bouad fok. Ir twn šizei aţ vulyd efi keiyiţ, fw isişir aţ souwu aġinaş ytw ğer gim lyfyd wny aġ nygy isişir aţ dainad resnyţ:

"There is no greater defeat than to see how the slaves argue about the virtues of this jailer and the defects of that one, and to see how they kill each other for defending this rich candidate against that other rich guy without realizing that both are the same shit: those who enslave us."

Ir twn zagad, vulyd efi degou nyt nigi vame aţ sisżiż šiz duf duši instrumentasi. Instrumentasi sisżiż iramše aġ tufdyd rele daiou aig seišiż kēivua:

"We grow numb, and our numbness paves the way for more compliance. A pathological division of learning forged by unprecedented asymmetries of knowledge and power fixes us in a new inequality marked by the tuners and the tuned, the herders and herded, the raw material and its miners, the experimenters and their unwitting subjects, those who will the future and those who are shunted toward others’ guaranteed outcomes."

Middlys aţ bibe aġ bidmid, zof zekyš arettğe geri uab fw nwfi ozid aţ gim lyfyd yaraşša firyţ bewbyš aţ mwdy ruaiš guaiż, weżvid aġ vaityyš:

"Technological inevitability is the mantra on which you are trained, but it is just an existential narcotic prescribed to induce resignation: a snuff dream of the spirit. Learn this, Norea: freedom from uncertainty is no freedom."