1) There is the here and now.
2) There are the memories.
3) There is the artificial.
The artificial is taking over both the here and now and the
memories as a source of information for reality-building and
sense-making.
Our physical senses mean less than they used to. They are
becoming just the medium for the artificial to move through.
When it becomes possible for transmitting visual information
without pushing it through the eyes, the eyes have become a legacy
input and we may not even bother opening them in the morning.
Social media is now holding our photographic memories and our
calendar of important events we attended. It is already better
at this than our own minds are.
Our mechanical movements are taken over by smart features that
take into account the mistakes we made. We are free to type
poorly, drive poorly and so on.
We are being cocooned by a blanket of connectivity. The
connections aren't value-free, of course. There are information
highways with glow that drowns out the portals to forest paths.
There are prisons, there are walls, there are kings and tyrants.
We can see further than ever but with less certainty of what our
place in the ecosystem is.
