he texted : : Hmm, thought I’d throw on Deadpool 2. I did
like the first (despite myself).
she texted : : No kidding.
: : No kidding. Kinda posthumanish. I’ve read
about posthumanism since the 80s. But you can well imagine that if smartphones
don’t tickle my fancy that I’d be unlikely to fuck a posthuman . . despite her
garish plastic cosmetics and upgrades.
: : Scifi – possibilities were extolled they (scientists – ohsay Dr Frankenstein) would eventually be able to
upload our wetware (memories – thinking) into computers. And THENof course machines will pull the plug on us without
saying so – kinda OffLine us -- cool astute
machines with a sense of irony and black humour. Ohbrother.
: : Yup. Scary times. Many more than for me. As our
brains dwindle away, lack memory functions, we lose our personal “clouds”,
preferring clouds outside ourselves.
: : Yes.
: : Glad we’re aligned. Suppose one could argue
that redundancy, whether your cloud or their cloud, is crucial these days –
because when it goes, it’s gone – erased – asif it never happened – who’s to
say it did – there’s no evidence.