All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
We are not only being colonized by machines, we are becoming machines, and gladly. We are already acting like and being treated like idiots by our technology. In the car it is turn by turn navigation, on foot it is stumbling with our phones in our faces, for music it is auto-tuned, formulaic pop songs, for dance it is the robotic pop-and-lock dubstep moves that amaze us...we defend our heads with noise-canceling headphones the size of earmuffs, are interrupted every moment by smartwatches...we bumble from one mediated moment to the next, always alone, always accompanied by no one--just the glow of a screen or a hum, a talisman. We&#x27;re not sane without checking our notifications, need entertainment...can&#x27;t stand not watching something, can&#x27;t stand dead space, can&#x27;t stand our own thoughts, can&#x27;t stand our own minds.<p>Please take my mind over, AI, we constantly beg. Put us out of our misery and upload us to the digital nirvana.<p>&#x2F;yea I know hackernews ain&#x27;t exactly the right place to blah that out there, but couldn&#x27;t. stop. --karma