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Visual Culture and Transhumanism

by Nikki Olson
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‘Visual Culture’ has to do with the creation, transmission and perpetuation of ideas in culture by visual means. Imagery, including shapes, colors, logos, fonts, apparel, and more broadly, ‘styles’, become symbols acting to carry and transmit meaning in a particular culture, and communicate ideology. A culture’s symbols can originate in that culture, or be a combination of new and borrowed ideas and meaning from others. For instance ‘tie-dye’, although dating back to ~500 AD, in the West is seen primarily as a symbol of hippie culture, communicating a particular set of social, political, and lifestyle beliefs. What can we identify in the Singularity and Transhumanist community as playing this particular role, and what ideology does some of the present visual culture communicate? Transhumanist visual culture can be characterized broadly as forward looking imagery that captures Transhumanist concepts, such as augmented [...]

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Singularity Utopia: Post Scarcity Awareness As An Antidote To Despair

by Singularity Utopia
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In the year 2011 we live a world based upon scarcity. So, what is Post-Scarcity? Imagine if computers grew on trees, and the world was a gigantic forest, then in a monetary sense computers would be worthless. It would be impossible to sell computers if an extreme over-abundance of computers existed because people could easily acquire computers for free. Scarcity of oil, gas, electricity, food, or computers demands regulation of these limited supplies via monetary restrictions. The price of anything will increase directly in relation to increased scarcity of its supply. In the world of Post-Scarcity everything will be free. How will a Post-Scarcity civilization arise? Artificial Intelligence combined with molecular nanotechnology will allow available resources to be utilized with ultra-efficiency, therefore all resources will effectively be unlimited i.e. free. The Technological Singularity is an explosion of intelligence. Upgrading a [...]

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