Becca Jane Approximately
When your mother sends back your invitations
And your father to your sister he explains
That you're tired of yourself and all your creations
Won't you come and see me, Queen Jane?
Feb 20, 2009
4:38pm
We are slacking
Which don’t we have? I suppose people don’t hibernate but, Extensive personality reconstruction, check, see internet and astounding numbers of mood disorders. Memory-editing, check, we have lobotomies and shit, as well as ECT. You got me on the artificial placenta. Prolongation of youthful vigor (CHECK!!) Man-animal chimeras, check check checkity check. Anyone’s who’s ever had a non-human transplant is a human-animal chimera, hence the title of my autobiography The Pig-Man: A Daughter’s Tale. If, on the other hand, one hundred years pass and the Singularity is NOT here, I’m going to be furious.In 1968 G. Rattray Taylor published an essay titled The Future- If Any. The essay contains hints of apocalypse and includes the following list predicting the technical achievements of our current time.
BY THE YEAR 2000:
-Hibernation and prolonged coma
-Extensive personality reconstruction
-Memory-editing
-Perfected artificial placenta and true baby-factory
-Prolongation of youthful vigor
-Man-animal chimeras
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