Semantron 22 Summer 2022

Technocalypse I

Ultimately, the inhumanity of the process by which media is selected seems to hold huge capability for harm. When you appeal to an audience of 1.1 billion on a service that aging law makers struggle to regulate, the limits to which capital incentive can justify disregard for the consumers is unfathomable. The surrealism of the cyber social world threatens to overpower the physical and so, rather than watching out for the growth of humanoid AI, we should keep an eye on the technology that estranges us from our humanity, from the level of self-checkout tills which disassociate us from one-another, to social media which indiscriminately hosts voices for the sake of fixating its audience, either through the grotesque or the affinitive.

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