Techne
Wherever you go the hum and pulse of electricity surrounds you. The light is provided by liquid crystal and LED panels. The walls, floors and ceilings made of a limited range of epoxied stone, glassine plastic or nanofibre. The very air itself is warmed, cooled and circulated by hidden fans. Without the technologic fabric of the Froth we would live in a pitch dark labyrinth before we asphyxiated, dehydrated or starved.
Into this, already complex, infrastructure we thread a wire/less communication network with several million channels. This is added on top of a barely functioning old style (but still non-obsolete) Net with all of it’s infestations and wildly propagating malignity.
As if this wasn’t enough, we furnish with portable media screens, semi-intelligent conformable fittings made from the most cutting edge of materials whose long term consequences are still poorly understood. In case some of the fittings have been missed or are, fates forbid, the wrong colour we have provided hundreds of thousands of Microfactories capable of creating any imaginable object. Then added processing space into everything down to, I ask you, the buttons on pairs of trousers. In the name of making it nice and easy for anyone to imagine and design every object, obviously.
Finally into this profoundly unnatural environment we drop several hundred million future shocked primates who have just been violently uprooted from their homes.
And then, for some reason, we act surprised when they behave like drug addled children in a toy store?
-Billy Yusef Mohammed
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