"Sustainable improvement will come to an end and digital transformation will begin" - warned prof. Grzegorz Osiński about 3 years ago. Looking at fresh events from the United States, these words sound almost like prophecy.
A prominent expert on transhumanism even stated that “Bill Gates is thin pain, with those who plan our future in the digital world." These 2 sentences are peculiarly powerful, for present the full Silicon Valley pays tribute to the fresh ruler of the United States. due to the fact that it is not, as the left-wing press would like, the decision of respective eccentric billionaires, but a complete paradigm change.
Today, Republicans openly support cryptocurrency specialists and venture capitals, Forerunners of generic algorithm technologies and social media owners. Attendees at the frontal swearing ceremony technozomals (tech-bros): Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, Ramaswany or Bezos are only a visible representation of the world's largest technological base.
The Silicon Valley has a bright future without taxes and administrative burdens, with billions of support for strategical projects. On the first day, the president announced the launch of the Stargate task – $500 billion to make the infrastructure essential to build the alleged super-intelligence. In line there are immense arms contracts, space flights, bioengineering development... a cluster connecting the White home to its technological facilities has never been so strong.
Trump's fresh allies besides hold the 4th power of the 21st century, or digital social media. No wonder liberal commentators talk about "the dusk of democracy" and the emergence of "new oligarchy". – Big corporations no longer influence the government, they are the government – They say.
Silicon Valley, armed with far-sighted algorithms, predicted much faster the dusk of demo-liberalism from left-wing elites. But alternatively of crying helplessly over “the triumph of populism”, they put their sails on the coming wind of change. erstwhile manager of the neo-marksist digital gulag, from now on, they will be on defender for freedom of speech, the right to life and the broadly understood "normality". Even if it is necessary, as the poet sings, to “walk a arrogant step without a face.”
Of course, he enjoys the free "conversion" of Musk or the transition to the position of common sense (even if cyclical) Zuckerberg. A small lighter on the heart erstwhile digital totalizm abandons rainbow-green colors, and conservatives and right-wingers vanish from the black book of censorship. However, this does not change the fact that cyberspace remains "technology-feudism"; a strategy where network owners consistently increase their advantage over users. In an age of "smart algorithms" that know you better than yourself, political colours and world-view issues have meaning as long as they mask this ruthless and only crucial division.
Let's not imagine that Donald Trump's purgatory would include tools that allowed him to sit in the White home for the second time. On the contrary, the ideology of exponential technological advancement has become the authoritative doctrine of the United States. Suffice it to say that the President's full household is profiting from cryptocurrency, and Trump himself plans to save the dollar in decline with digital money.
This phenomenon is accompanied by the narration proclaimed with full power, that all the problems of the planet – from hunger to infectious diseases to wars – could be solved by technology.
However, the communicative has its dark side. As technology progresses, the gap between its managers and customers is besides growing. erstwhile transhumanists talk about acquiring planets, transferring the head to a cloud, or improving the human genome, they mean a narrow elite, in a planet where economical inequality has translated into biological inequality. In this context, Elon Musk, working on a home brain implant and having 5 children as a consequence of extracorporeal fertilization, actually, as he erstwhile admitted, “lives what he preaches.”
Trump's best friend spoke of the American elections as “the blows of civilization”. If this is the case, then the depopulated plans of the aged hippies do not capitulate the Christian thought of the West, but the dream of a digital “homo deus”. In both cases, however, man is only a transitional phase—the “greatest pest of the world” in the way of destruction, or a middleman of a new, improved digital life form.
Donald Trump, announcing the primacy of natural law and freedom from anti-human utopias, inactive seems to represent the old world. But the tension between the ruler and his court cannot last forever. Although Musk admitted that he "doesn't want to disturb Jesus," what will he do erstwhile he has to choose between him and Fyodorov? With a consensus on the human genome and a consensus on the non-existence of free will, can we respect the natural dignity of man?
Looking at the origins of the counter-revolution in the United States, left-wing journalists mark the arrival of "New mediate Ages, crusaders with algorithms to control the emotions of the net crowd". If this meant returning to Christianitas' ideals, it would be a arrogant vision. But it has a chance of being realized only erstwhile Christianity one more time wins in mortal clash with the ancient dragon of gnosis.
Wind change can always turn around, banners can be repainted. Silicon Valley can inactive leave Donald Trump as shortly as it left a ship full of suicide radicals from the Democratic Party. "The planet has not stopped; the rulers of the planet are inactive developing fresh concepts," warned Prof. Osiński. possibly it is time for another.
Peter Relich
