I need to shake out the static with some Golden Age noise. Them retro folks wasn't too far off. They got the fucking Smart Phone spot on. From the German Sci/Fi 'Zine "Utopia-Magazin 1929.
"Living in the Future is like having Bees live in your Head."
(Firesign Theater 1972.)
Here's an article for "Z" to read and everybody else too:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/11/prime-minister-of-poland-signs-global-appeal-to-stop-5g/
Wherein I read.
ReplyDelete"5G, a new millimetre band frequency range being introduced by the telecommunications industry worldwide, has been identified by over 2,000 scientists and 1,400 medical doctors from all over the World, as presenting a direct threat to human health, as well as to animal, insect and plant life."
As if anyone would care.
Digital wonks will makes more $Zillions The platform peasants will get sharper high-rez even 3-D porn. It looks like a Win-Win to me.
Course this kicks the extinction rates over the Moon,...but Fuck it.
“Technology will surely drown us. The individual is disappearing rapidly. We’ll eventually be nothing but numbered ants." -Marcel Duchamp, in an interview in 1966, as quoted in the catalogue of the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
ReplyDeleteYes, back to the golden age! We know when that was. As for the future - it turns out Orwell and Huxley called that one only too well. We might as well have just enjoyed the moment.
ReplyDeleteMuch as I dislike him, I gotta admit Duchamp nailed that one. I never said he was dumb.
Good on PM Morawiecki. 5G? Just say no! It's time we started mulling a Butlerian jihad.