SELF-ABSORPTION
Eight-hundred-thousand miles ago, hurled at sixty-seven-thousand miles per hour, twelve hours from now, my planet-spinning, perpetual twelve-thousand mile curve takes me into the next sunrise. But, Spaceship Earth has changed me more than my sidereal timekeeper or distance metric belies. Every second of every day, I head into a technological abyss at warp speed making it impossible to know where to steer what brought me here–what we call our humanity. We stand at the cusp of an evolutionary departure from the modern human, because of an onslaught of fossil fuel technology, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering. What should we choose to do? Stop progress at all costs or manage the revolution as best we can? You might be interested in the attached article I’d written a while back, to get a sense of where I’m coming from and going to.