One way in which we are becoming interconnected with technology biologically is the way we now rely on our devices to pick up the slack of our own memories; to store them in a database and also remind us. If you were to ask a random person how many of the contacts on their phone they have memorized, it’d be less than 10. Personally, I only know my direct family members’ phone numbers strictly from memory but for everyone else’s number I’ve relied on iCloud to keep that data stored for me. Similar to ‘dry data’ that is mentioned by Eugene Thacker, which are files in a database. He also mentions, “…The greatest achievement of biotechnics would not be the transformation of all life into machines, but the resurrection of life that is perfected biology, more biological than the biological itself, the redemption of biology…” which I think is what the age of AI is for us today; the redemption of biology, and life itself.
Nov 25 2020
