Full Nova: Is this our digital goodbye?

A supernova is the last blast of a star as it ends a stage of evolution. Maybe that’s where we are right now? Digital culture, blindfolded, skipping happily along without a responsibility in the world.

Transhumanism rubbing its hands at the possibilities; fantasies coming true. And us regular mortals in some part-panic that AI is coming to get us…

Sci-fact, restless in its perpetually unmade bed, sweating reality, pores dilated, and smart drug-infused saline soaking the human sheets of time.

The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10 000 years ago. (source:ESA)

It’s coming for us. It’s already here. You are already behind. Mid journey to the forever land.

It’s not all bleak, though…

Digital as human evolution

The ‘nova’ connection runs deeper.

“If the anthropic cosmological principle rules, as I think it may, then it seems that the prime objective is to convert all of matter and radiation into information.

Thanks to the wonders of the age of fire, we have taken the first step.

We now stand at a critical moment in this process, the moment when the Anthropocene gives way to the Novacene.”

and that was by a 95-year-old. The wonderful Novacene by James Lovelock

In brief: the Novacene is when we turn sunlight into data.

The Sun might save us

An environmental godsend or rare earth eco-trap? We’ll mine whatever we have to create what we’re told we need. Solar fields to charge the rare earth batteries. We’d be happier making money from the cure before we fought the cause.

Tate Ellis Explainer:

I don’t know which way it’ll turn out. Like you I’ve been bomblasted with dystopian visions - and loved them.

Still, I’m no prepper fantasist eagerly awaiting the fall of humankind. No transhumanist ready to rise from its occult flame. I do eat my fruit and veg and would like to live a long time - and yes, I’m in denial of my own mortality.

With Full Nova I’m saying we’ll either make it or not. Eyes wide open time. It’s an inspiring time but beware the flame.

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Full Nova

a stratospheric change

internal gallaxies collide

a new cene

star bursting colours

will be seen

either through eyes wide

visionary, dilated, amazed

or fused shut covering melting amneotics

gazed blindly subscribed

cult crypto

flooded data drains

to pay back hope

that our future coal forest would survive

the coud rains failed

streaming tears

dripped on Prometheus instead

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