At least we've been aggressive in trying to upgrade ourselves".
We upgraded ourselves, in terms of education, hygiene, and social norms, to maximise the return to urban life.
Staged by the British theatre company 1927, Golem is a satirical dystopian fable about the dangers of the digital world and our unceasing urge to upgrade ourselves – but it's also a family piece, combining animation, claymation, film, live music and comedy.
Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how we could upgrade our ability to cope with all this change.
Somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, many of us become convinced that we'll be able to alter fundamental aspects of our personalities -- or at least become upgraded versions of ourselves.
This means ridding ourselves of flesh and bones, and upgrading to new cybernetic tissues, alloys, and other synthetic materials, including ones that make us cyborg-like and robotic.
In sensibly upgrading to chip-and-pin payments, and then contactless cards, we freed ourselves from the low-tech, easily hackable swipe-and-sign cards still widely used in the US.
We are being sold on the need to upgrade all parts of ourselves, all at once, including parts that we did not previously know needed upgrading.
Then came reality TV, which turned our attention back to ourselves by broadcasting the allegedly genuine and ultra-mundane lives of everyday people, upgrading trash TV to a cultural blockbuster: couch potatoes watching couch potatoes.
Would you consider upgrading?
