Literature in an Age of Cyborg Technology

[Chris Bays]

In response to Adnan's discussion of literature evolving from the oral to the electronic, we should also focus on the strange new world of cyborg technology:

We now have technology that lets fighter pilots think and their planes veer to the paths of thoughts.

Soon, we will have more and more computer chips inplanted, for saving eyesight, eliminating Alzheimer's, and enhancing memory ... and

Will this not lead to implantation of texts and images ... a whole library of information that can be brought into our minds through chemical and electrical channels, a plugging in of intelligence, a hierarchy of human minds capsuled into
a central mind?

Literature will be available at whim. Libraries will be part of everyone's mind. Memory will not be lost, for we will carry humanity and its love, sadness, and anger within.

Will we then evolve into a new species?

Will we cease to exist as humans, or will we be more human?

Will we be bodiless synapses ... dendrites of spirituality? Echoes of ourselves?

[Maxwell James]

check this out, speaking of:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/jeff-bezos-promotes-the-k_n_169451.html

[Maxwell James]

Hey, read Adnan's blog and then this one and published some of my own thoughts in response:

http://cantaraville.ning.com/profiles/blogs/re-erase-the-books

Check it out if you like.