Watching my computer screen dance as a McAfee technician in
India works on my computer. Day nine (?)
of the computer saga.
What is this
strange new way of being?! We insert
just enough familiar words in our digital lexicon to give an impression that
this is of our own creation and control.
So now we watch bits of information flicker across our
screen, for the moment still deigning to communicate in cryptic collections of
runes that allow some rudimentary illusion of our control…..for now.
It is so easy to just sit and watch them flicker, while
across our thoughts flickers a nascent awareness that they are watching us.
We are learning to live in a world where outcomes and
results and responses are no longer physically rational and predictable, or at
least fixable by wrench and brush and visual analysis and mechanical reasoning.
An invisible dropped bit can cost a lifetime’s work, a
technician’s job, or a company’s future.
Here we see a hint of the difference between the preceding
physical evolutionary world and the present ethereal information world.
The mutations and accidents, cataclysms and catastrophes, death
and disaster that have always beset living systems have promoted evolution,
migrations, and adaptations, resulting in flexibility and forgiveness and
survival imperative built into the biological systems.
No such accommodating tolerance is exhibited by the roots
and gates and registers of digital information.
The random upset of one DRAM cell has no chance to propagate into a
genetic adaptation and evolutionary leap into new capabilities.
We, the carbon and water components of this information
marriage, must do the adapting and evolving.
We would do well to pay attention to our rampant adaptations, and to ask
exactly what we are becoming and what we want to become.
The evolution is happening and will happen. We will either be blindly carried along,
humanity moving away from what it is to be human because we do not even know
what that is, or we will consciously choose our direction, using the present
Big Bang of the information universe to do our bidding instead of letting it
dictate the shallowness of our relationships and consume our lives by dictating
our consumption of goods and entertainment.
In conscious awareness of our now freely chosen direction,
we can reclaim our human destiny.
Pass it on
Copyright 2016 Don Ray
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