The Fourth Ape
At Last, The Fourth Ape
Yes, we’ve found the fourth ape or monkey and he’s the culmination and concatenation of the first three. Somehow I don’t think this is what the futurists meant when they waxed poetic about Singularity.
Tags: Apes | Humor | Internet | Sarcasm | Singularity | Smartphones | Social Media | Society | Technology | The Internet
July 22nd, 2018 at 9:57 am
I’ve seen this meme going around, and your commentary is spot-on. I appreciate the labor- and time-saving apps that smartphones provide, and the opportunities for online entrepreneurship, but surely there’s got to be more to the future than carrying portable TVs in our pockets.
I wrote about this phenomenon–settling for a less-grandiose future than Americans dreamed of in, say, the 1950s–a few weeks back in a piece about Space Force: https://theportlypolitico.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/why-the-hate-for-space-force/
I have a similar piece posting Monday, 23 July 2018. Again, I love having huge storehouses of human knowledge at my fingertips, but technology must have more to recommend it than cat videos on YouTube.