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Call this new implementation a virtual<ref>''Real'' electric monks, like electric sheep — you know, the ones androids dream of — would be take up space, drain energy and require servicing. Virtual electric monks would not.</ref> “electric monk”. It would be a ''labour-saving device'' - it would doomscroll the internet for us. | Call this new implementation a virtual<ref>''Real'' electric monks, like electric sheep — you know, the ones androids dream of — would be take up space, drain energy and require servicing. Virtual electric monks would not.</ref> “electric monk”. It would be a ''labour-saving device'' - it would doomscroll the internet for us. | ||
===Alien vs. Predator=== | ===Alien vs. Predator=== | ||
''Alien vs. Predator'' doesn’t work as a premise because no-one cares if two baddies knock seven bells out of each other — in doing so they cancel each other out: they reduce the threat to us: if they are knocking seven bells out of each other, that means they aren’t knocking seven bells out of us. ''Alien/Predator Alliance'': Now ''there’s'' a film premise. | |||
Now, if I can have ''one'' doomscrolling electric monk, I can have ''a thousand''. And if the technology works<ref>If it doesn’t — by no means certain to — then nor does The Man’s, and this phase of our cultural existence will pass on all by itself.</ref> then the forthcoming [[Apocalypse|apocalyptic]] battle will not be between ''us'' and ''The Man'', but between ''The Man’s'' technology (''Alien'') and ''ours'' (''Predator''). Since, [[Q.E.D.]], The Man’s technology has no way of telling ''us'' from ''our electric monks'', then ''we'' have the advantage. The Man needs us. We don’t need The Man. Especially since our [[Electric monk|electric monks]] ''don’t'' have to emulate ''our'' behaviour at all. We can obstreperously configure them to emulate ''someone else''. This is how Russian twitter bots hacked the US election, you see. | Now, if I can have ''one'' doomscrolling electric monk, I can have ''a thousand''. And if the technology works<ref>If it doesn’t — by no means certain to — then nor does The Man’s, and this phase of our cultural existence will pass on all by itself.</ref> then the forthcoming [[Apocalypse|apocalyptic]] battle will not be between ''us'' and ''The Man'', but between ''The Man’s'' technology (''Alien'') and ''ours'' (''Predator''). Since, [[Q.E.D.]], The Man’s technology has no way of telling ''us'' from ''our electric monks'', then ''we'' have the advantage. The Man needs us. We don’t need The Man. Especially since our [[Electric monk|electric monks]] ''don’t'' have to emulate ''our'' behaviour at all. We can obstreperously configure them to emulate ''someone else''. This is how Russian twitter bots hacked the US election, you see. | ||