Humanity 2125:
Will We Make It?
The purpose of this is to heal our broken hearts.
About the project
This is an organically unfolding composition—part essay, part memoir, part speculative fiction, part liturgy. It is structured in five Acts with nineteen sub-parts and asks how we hold to our humanity in the face of revolutionary technological change.
The web edition is built as plain static HTML: fast, mobile-friendly, searchable, and linkable down to individual passages.
Contents
Act I: Deus Et Harvard
We climb to the top of the mountain only to yearn for the ground.
Act II: Humanity vs. AI
We wrestle with those with whom we must unite. That’s not sexy, but it is sex.
Act III: Humanity vs. Humanity
What if the ship is sinking? Should we be like the Titanic Orchestra, and play until the very end?
Act IV: Humanity with AI
We were always surrounded by divine intelligence, just now it’s more explicit.
Act V: The Future?
The gift to the genius is to be able to live multiple lives in one, like a cat.
FIN
I am us. Humans are geniuses, we think.