This awesomely frightening video came across my Twitter feed and seems pretty appropriate to how we’re currently experiencing life. This is life as we saw it programmed in the movie Total Recall or perhaps coming close to The 6th Day, though this entertaining yet life-resembling video was done by Tom Scott. According to Tom, he actually got inspiration from two books, Jim Monroe’s Everyone in Silico and Rudy Rucker’s Postsingular. I haven’t read these books yet, but now I’m curious (and nauseous) after watching the video.
The sad part is that people are relating to this video because it’s resembling life as it’s currently unraveling in this dangerously expansive IP regime and national security obsession. SF writers tend to write about what they consider to be fantastically futuristic, although the resemblances that real life takes soon becomes alarming for the creator and the reader.
Seriously, is this the life that any of us want? It might have been amusing if not for the fact that it’s resembling an emerging reality that is shaking us all out of our complacency. And no, we do NOT accept your terms and conditions!!!
– Thanks to Cory Doctorow for forwarding the link
