Why does OMAC destroy Lila? He tells us why: "Where does humanity stop and technology begin? We no longer know, Lila."
The whole series is about becoming slaves to a greater system. Brother Eye may be benevolent, but OMAC is still its slave.
This is happening now. Optimists point to how humanity is getting better (The Better Angels of Our Natures.) But this is simply a measure of how individual humans have less and less power.
Individual humans no longer make the decisions. Groups do, organisations do, markets do, systems do. They run the world better than individual humans did. And technology means a single person can understand less and less of how it works.
We are building better and better technology. But technology is just a tool. It will be used by the most powerful entities. Those entities are no longer individual humans.
Humans are networks of cells. Nations and corporations are networks of humans. They evolve. They live. We are merely their cells. And they are learning how to replace more and more of us.
The whole series is about becoming slaves to a greater system. Brother Eye may be benevolent, but OMAC is still its slave.
This is happening now. Optimists point to how humanity is getting better (The Better Angels of Our Natures.) But this is simply a measure of how individual humans have less and less power.
Individual humans no longer make the decisions. Groups do, organisations do, markets do, systems do. They run the world better than individual humans did. And technology means a single person can understand less and less of how it works.
We are building better and better technology. But technology is just a tool. It will be used by the most powerful entities. Those entities are no longer individual humans.
Humans are networks of cells. Nations and corporations are networks of humans. They evolve. They live. We are merely their cells. And they are learning how to replace more and more of us.
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