The Great Subduction

We are indeed fast approaching another sort of singularity than the one most frequently discussed, where “being” and “being represented” will become coextensive — which is to say it seems inevitable on our current course that in the near future every moment of our individual lives will be recorded as a matter of course.

the data-storage revolution, that is, out of the sudden astronomical increase in the practically free availability of practically unlimited online space for anyone who wants it.

In industrial capitalism human beings created profit by working the machines. In posthuman capitalism the machines create profit by farming the human beings.

You simply cannot orient yourself in this world if you do not have the opportunity to learn, in the broadest sense, what came first, and what is derived from what.