Into the gleaming future. Episode Two.
The frontiers the inhabitants of the beginning of the second Millennium CE (we) established between technology and life, science and magic, mechanics and biology, anumal and rational, intuitive and organised, have totally dissipated. The interval between natural and artificial makes no sense at all anymore.
Computer’s inner circuits complemented silicon with vegetable veins, in which sap served as thermo-electrical information conductor, with living tissue and blood veins and nerves and true synapses. Quantum leap transfers, particle accelerators and enchantments assured the energetic transport from bio-ordenative module to module.
Hydraulic pumps breathed and steam engines and clockwatch-machines vibrated inside amniotic liquids, and thoughts curved the space in electrical schools.
People no longer understood rationally how things worked. No one wanted to know. The conservation and recovery silos, as well as the half-mechanical, half-alive production centrals, controlled by biological programmes, emerged in the horizon as if moved by fascinating, unknown magic.
This situation’s seed was the very language of each particular branch of knowledge: so specific, complex and hermetic that, by augmenting in geometrical proportion the gap in between them, collapsed. A marine biologist no longer understood a palaeontologist, who did not comprehend a nuclear engineer, who would not know what a mathematician was saying. And none could talk to the common citizen anymore.
The very existence of categories and frontiers met its final entropy. Science was allowed everything. Moreover, everything was possible. Fiction became ex-fiction became scientific laws. Medieval bestiaries came to life. Myths became flesh. Will was power enough to realize, and “absurd”, “aberrant”, “incongruous”, were liquified into blinding “possibility”.
Computer’s inner circuits complemented silicon with vegetable veins, in which sap served as thermo-electrical information conductor, with living tissue and blood veins and nerves and true synapses. Quantum leap transfers, particle accelerators and enchantments assured the energetic transport from bio-ordenative module to module.
Hydraulic pumps breathed and steam engines and clockwatch-machines vibrated inside amniotic liquids, and thoughts curved the space in electrical schools.
People no longer understood rationally how things worked. No one wanted to know. The conservation and recovery silos, as well as the half-mechanical, half-alive production centrals, controlled by biological programmes, emerged in the horizon as if moved by fascinating, unknown magic.
This situation’s seed was the very language of each particular branch of knowledge: so specific, complex and hermetic that, by augmenting in geometrical proportion the gap in between them, collapsed. A marine biologist no longer understood a palaeontologist, who did not comprehend a nuclear engineer, who would not know what a mathematician was saying. And none could talk to the common citizen anymore.
The very existence of categories and frontiers met its final entropy. Science was allowed everything. Moreover, everything was possible. Fiction became ex-fiction became scientific laws. Medieval bestiaries came to life. Myths became flesh. Will was power enough to realize, and “absurd”, “aberrant”, “incongruous”, were liquified into blinding “possibility”.
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