Digital Overlords
I came so close to posting this in the online discussion I'm leading:
About language existing outside the individual, do you suppose this means that when computers finally become sentient and start slowly filling our heads with code with the intention of simultaneously making us intellectually sluggish and leaving messages for other computers to decipher later, that it can only be considered language if and when other computers do in fact come along to mine that code? And that, if those computers never do show up, the code cannot be considered to have been language in the first place?
Because I imagine it does.
But I chickened out and put in a reference to Love Actually instead.
Edit: Also, a guy in my class posted this in the discussion:
Additionally, we are no longer disembodied from the internet, but instead our bodies become commodified through it. By updating social networking sites, applications like loopt for iphones, and tweets, we add metadata to our bodies and the space they fill in our three dimensional world.
While I think it's entirely possible that he was just trying to come up with the most insane idea possible and then snicker at anyone who took it seriously, I have just now kind of decided to let it be a guiding principle for my life anyway.
...Did I mention that I loved this week's readings for this class?
About language existing outside the individual, do you suppose this means that when computers finally become sentient and start slowly filling our heads with code with the intention of simultaneously making us intellectually sluggish and leaving messages for other computers to decipher later, that it can only be considered language if and when other computers do in fact come along to mine that code? And that, if those computers never do show up, the code cannot be considered to have been language in the first place?
Because I imagine it does.
But I chickened out and put in a reference to Love Actually instead.
Edit: Also, a guy in my class posted this in the discussion:
Additionally, we are no longer disembodied from the internet, but instead our bodies become commodified through it. By updating social networking sites, applications like loopt for iphones, and tweets, we add metadata to our bodies and the space they fill in our three dimensional world.
While I think it's entirely possible that he was just trying to come up with the most insane idea possible and then snicker at anyone who took it seriously, I have just now kind of decided to let it be a guiding principle for my life anyway.
...Did I mention that I loved this week's readings for this class?