Digital kills as gods once did

What will be left of us after total digitisation and climate catastrophe?

It’s a perverse suicidal determinism. Each step bringing us closer to the end, yet somehow we enjoy weaving the noose…

Digital isn’t human

Once the essence of each human is a digital footprint, a file extension, we will have lost something essentially analogue, the grainy ‘feel’ of a fingerprint, the skin in the human game.

We are data

For sure our experience as humans is becoming digified, with our lives increasingly lived through, via and mediated by technology.

Wearables become tattoables, digestibles, inheritables.

For now ‘life hacks’ are tips, but only until we hack our DNA.

So, what gets left behind? What will a human legacy be once it has been fully digified?

When nature takes us back under its wing, when the data centres drown and the tsunamis collide.

Who will know if we really brought this on ourselves or if it was the wrath of gods, furious with our scrollings and tappings?

Archival

In the end it won’t matter what we liked, shared or commented on.

Nothing will be archival.

Our digital currency fleeting, lost forever.

There’ll be no time

to more than summarise

the insta sunrises and the whitty reprises.

The feed a flood

over empty lands.

The clouds collide

stratodigified

Let’s make it clear

we existed

before our truth denied

#digital

#love2hate