{"id":2978,"date":"2008-09-13T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T02:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2008-09-13T19:04:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T02:04:02","slug":"sexual-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/09\/13\/19\/04\/sexual-singularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now, thanks to noted Republican game designer Will Wright<\/a>, humankind is one step closer to the Singularity<\/a>. From the simple early beginnings of the likes of Core War<\/a>, Life<\/a> and Creatures<\/a>, we now have the unfortunately DRM-laden Spore<\/a>. Providing people are willing to consent to the monitoring and potential control of their computing device according to the whims of the Electronic Arts<\/a> Software Gulag<\/a> and Sony’s SecuROM<\/a>, they can now act as creators, creating entire virtual worlds and creatures therein, and sharing them with the global hive mind. The game eschews real-world random mutation and natural selection and instead deploys a tour de force<\/em> symbiosis of computing and multimedia to enable people to practice intelligent design in a manner aceptable to the anti-science inquisitors at the Discovery Institute<\/a>. And what manner of wonderful creatures do we as nascent godlings bring forth?<\/p>\n

httpvh:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i6c4e57K2AQ<\/p>\n

httpvh:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rLknbFcJb4<\/p>\n

Yes… Penis Monsters<\/a> – truly the Singularity Is Near<\/a>, oh yes.<\/p>\n

Brian Aldiss was right all along when, in his Helliconia<\/a> epic (one of the greatest science fictions of the 20th century), he predicted how the advanced inhabitants of Earth would devour news from the Universe only as a giant reality show and then, finally, how the remaining advanced civilisation would collapse into savagery and sexual perversity. Its last relics? The hunting gangs of genetically engineered, aggressive, semi-intelligent and rapacious dildo organisms. Humankind’s final legacy to the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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