Marcus Parsons
enable our individual and collective survival. We also do what we can with it, alone and together, to pursue our advantage and happiness both as individuals and as part of larger groups: families, communities, businesses, nations, etc. However, I don’t know to what extent we can make more of that thread than we already do—for instance, to fulfill our ideals about cooperation, sharing, peace, mutual love and respect, equality of means and opportunity, etc.
ART Habens
bring us. If we were to use them to go anywhere and observe anything we want, it could create a universal social transparency, enabling all of us to penetrate at will all (or many) walls and boundaries—physical, geographical, psychological, cultural, political, spiritual, mystical, etc. Ultimately, that transparency might reach deep within our minds and bodies, further enabled by scientific means, mostly computer-based, that are already developing. That’s not to say that I think such a development would be a good thing. It could be horrific and destructive, or a transitional development toward the demise of our species and the further ascendancy of our machines. Or—?
I explore that question in some depth in SQUEEZESHOT, particularly in PRELUDE. For one thing, the tiny drones premise puts the matter to the test. I like imagining the augmented experience such drones would
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