Tagged with Michael Pollan

Coevolution & The Technology of Desire

From one angle we are "the sex organs of technology" — the mushrooms sprouting up from a global mycelium of routers and electrical wiring. From another angle, we live in loving mutuality with a vast distributed intelligence that constantly reshapes itself to better fit our desires. Those of us born before emotional toys might balk at the idea, but we are swiftly approaching a newly in-spirited world where living machines make philosophical questions of sentience irrelevant. (more)