Cousin Ardi
“Rarely has a time suffered so much from eye-hunger as ours. Eye-hunger is just as important for us in our time as once was the potato, which made it possible to feed the rapidly amounting mass of people” Friedrich Freska 1912
The recent unearthing of our long lost cousin reveals the gradual stretch towards the heavens is driven by hunger. An ordinary hunger for ordinary things propped our ancestors up on two legs. It was not the previously believed stroll through the savannas that brought about our bipedalism, but a frenzied hunger for sex and food that required two hands to carry the excess. The extraordinary hunger for extraordinary things that we see today will require a far more drastic rise to the occasion. The hunger and trafficking of information will soon overwhelm our bodies driving us to omnipedalism and leaving our useless bodies behind, we will stroll no more.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Prolonging the usefulness of meat space could be extended, buying time for post-human accommodations. It’s a trifling rearrangement of cells…that will do the trick, a nanoscopic alteration…i won’t bother you with ’shop’ talk, but remind you that obsolescence is largely a matter of perception.