RE: Cyberpunk Reflections: Warm food by Artoo-Detoo
Hi, I'm curious about the incident with the robot.
When I read the mention of the difference between living conditions, access to resources and quality of life, I have to agree with you. I have never read about an era in which there were no different levels of life according to human groups, but at present, the "Economic gap" and "Social gap" (which already existed since earlier times) adds the " Technological Gap "which ends up being the central problem, because today the first two gaps are derived from the third.
Can this be reflected in the situation that certain body improvements or technological implants, available in the near future, would have a very unequal distribution in the population? I'm almost sure you can answer: Yes!
Sadly, but realistically, I don't see that technological advances actually eliminate all stratifications and discriminations, they may even be the cause of the emergence of new forms of discrimination. Who knows, we may have in the future a separation between First and Third World according to the possibilities of making implants for improvement.
I loved this reflection. I think you're right and the implications of all this are profound and of major importance for the whole humanity.
We're going to witness just new forms of the same archetypal situations of the human experience: injustice, war, oppression; but also solidarity, sacrifice, resilience... all of that will take now high-tech forms.
The poor people will manage the high-tech in difficult, rebel ways. I think that we are already looking at the beginning of that: open-source software (and hardware, OSH), hacking and cryptocurrencies centered on privacy (as Zcash and Monero).
And I'm very interested in the ways by which we'll explore the spirituality. What will it be? In any way, it would mix our own biological processes (like dreaming) with the new technological possibilities.