The Secret Lives of Machines

In childhood, our parents asked “what do you want to become?” It is a metaphor for the current state of our society. Will we synchronize with the things we make? Will we react against machines to become more biological than ever? Who we want to be, or what we want to be, will be the central question in the loops of the future where we look at things we make and we look at ourselves. Lost amongst this dynamic is how things we make look at other things we make. This requires looking at networks of machines and how they interact with humans, and moreover, how their own interactions become ways we relate to them. All this converges to a view of the world where relationships and processes are the primitives for living, as opposed to objects and goals.