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JUX... A few notes on cyborg society and the digital dead.
by Eric Wegerbauer page two
We can not tell the future, but there is one thing we do know there will always be change. Yes, ‘change is the only constant’, and with this rate increasing, overlapping, bifurcating, and warping; it is becoming harder to decipher the complexities and effects that it has on our society. Evolution is now moving at a rate measured in nanoseconds. The beginning steps of evolution took a billion years.
After that can the nervous system and brains which took a few hundred million years. Next came the development of language, which took less than a million years…Today, our evolution is measured in terms of
decades! Becoming autocatalytic, the rate of change in the coming years is unpredictable. Though I feel something great developing from the
ephemerallity, we may never be able to comprehend it any more than a dog’s comprehension of Dostoevsky’s ‘War and Peace’. With a fascination for this ‘nano-change’ and current technology, we’ve tried to develop future systems of architecture that relate to the issues. We have been willing to look at any future condition, and interrogate any angle of difference that may have an effect on our tomorrow. In the same breath, we agree with Winston Churchill who is credited with saying, ‘The further back you look, the further ahead you can see’. Simply put, we learn from the past and attempt to address the future.
Children of the ‘next’ generation have always experienced changes in their evolutionary development. Today’s children are running this same
path, but what they are stepping into is a radical redefinition of space. Instead of being the old standard, people will be looked at uniquely if they spend a lifetime living in one area. It will become common to have lived in three different continents and numerous other regions. Vacation homes will often be in other countries rather than in the local foothills. In further continuation of this ‘global’ living, the web will be refined to a true world information network. It will become the ‘base of accessibility’ which helps tie together the disparate parts of future living.
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