“For a long time we believed that machines were man’s instrument, but it’s now clear that men were the instruments that paved the way for machines. The transition will happen slowly: machines won’t subject men to their rule, but they’ll enter man, like an urge, an intimate aspiration. Even now, becoming a flawless machine is the governing ideal of billions of men, who struggle to meld ever more completely into technology’s flux. Human history ends with us. With you, with me, and maybe with our children. Afterwards, there will still be something, but it won’t be humanity. (…)
We will have been the parenthesis that has allowed the descent of God into the world. Except that God, instead of taking the improbable form of a disembodied being, will be a gigantic artificial organism, created by man but capable after a while of transcending him to fulfill the prophecy of a time without sin and without pain.”
Giuliano da Empoli – The Wizard of the Kremlin (Pushkin Press. Kindle Edition)
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