Red Alert: If the hyper-present hasn't already arrived, it is coming It will be the enclosure of time in which people imagine they live. The irrelevance of the past to any now will become more extreme more quickly. For example, any movie made within the previous year or so will be an old movie, perhaps even a classic, triggering feigned nostalgia and genuine disgust.
Phones will print new versions of themselves not when their owners want but when they want. People will undergo procedures in which vast numbers of their cells will be replaced, chiefly by synthetic cells. As robots simulate humanity more, humans will agree to become more robotish.
History will become a tired joke like a great grandmother's lingerie. Maintaining the same personal identity for over a year will be considered reactionary and dull.
I'll be stuck back here in some kind of past, invisibly wishing you all the best, and wishing the best will be obsolete.
hans ostrom 2016
Phones will print new versions of themselves not when their owners want but when they want. People will undergo procedures in which vast numbers of their cells will be replaced, chiefly by synthetic cells. As robots simulate humanity more, humans will agree to become more robotish.
History will become a tired joke like a great grandmother's lingerie. Maintaining the same personal identity for over a year will be considered reactionary and dull.
I'll be stuck back here in some kind of past, invisibly wishing you all the best, and wishing the best will be obsolete.
hans ostrom 2016
