Steven Cloud

The Future.

Cananopie: this wired article you linked a while back is crazy.

Steven Cloud: yeah totally

Cananopie: And I say probably a bad idea

Steven Cloud: creeps me out

Cananopie: right - like the article basically says “Yea, trying to control people through drugs and electricity - old fuckin news baby - we’ve got the way - we’re controlling them with light, and it’s like 10 years down the road baby”

Steven Cloud: they try to act like it’s for people with injuries, but they’ll militarize it straight away. try to say it prevents PTSD. then we’ll finally have remorseless killing machines

Cananopie: or reprogram misbehavior in criminals

Steven Cloud: right. “criminals”

Cananopie: and then to potential criminals

Steven Cloud: yup. then simple deviants

Cananopie: and then mandatory at birth

Steven Cloud: prenatal dude. prenatal.

Cananopie: right - fucked.

Steven Cloud: sigh.

Cananopie: the technology will most likely be lost when the world collapses before then though

Steven Cloud: silver lining!

Cananopie: thats it.

Consumerism is ‘eating the future’

“All we’re doing is what all other creatures have ever done to survive, expanding into whatever territory is available and using up whatever resources are available, just like a bacterial culture growing in a Petri dish till all the nutrients are used up. What happens then, of course, is that the bugs then die in a sea of their own waste.”

(via New Scientist)

"People are more likely to support the use of force if they view it as costless."

— P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war

Time Travel

Justin Farren:  i accept all time travel theories. im afraid not to, for fear future me rejects giving me a time travel apparatus
Steven Cloud:  yeah, when i was a kid, i played by myself a lot (surprise!), and used to try to convince future me to reveal himself
Justin Farren:  shit i still do that. i look for me in public places specifically since i know i'd try to blend in
Steven Cloud:  haha
Justin Farren:  but future me has to be smarter than current me, so he probably knows all my tricks, that son of a bitch. unless he continued on the drinking path.
Steven Cloud:  haha