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all this will someday be yours

are you ready for some homogenized futurism? i know i am. let's all put on our jumpsuits, get the blue lights pulsing and jam.

it is officially the future. when i was twelve, i always tried to imagine what i would be like at this age. i wonder if i would have disappointed myself. i can hardly remember what my vision of the future was when i was a kid.. it was an amalgamation of back to the future part II and logan's run i think. star wars had nothing to do with it because that was a long time ago, mind you. i know that my twelve year old self would have been disappointed in my current fashion choices, preferring a wardrobe of shiny latex uniforms festooned with various insignias.

humans seem to inherently fear the future.. i am simultaneously scared and enthralled. i look at each new news story involving robotics, biotech, etc and see at as a window to myself twenty years from now. i am constantly preparing myself for the future though. i spray paint things silver.. I aim to one day live in an immense white room with nothing in it except a control panel. press a button and out pops your bed.. a rack of jumpsuits and boots.. your virtual reality sensor implantation tube. all the comforts.

anyways. right - humans do seem to inherently fear the future. one of the reasons i think this is is because once ai take control of the primary means of humanity's survival, we won't have that much to do. once we aren't preoccupied with the daily struggle, we are left to contemplate our place in the universe. maybe we will spend all of our remaining days trying to find out if we are really alone here or how the universe formed in the first place. will these be the primary concerns of our day to day lives as humans who have transcended humanity? or will we simply plug in our tubes and let the sensory information flow into our enhanced cybernetic brains - forgetting that we evolved from specs of dust suspended in nothingness.

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