“The most beautiful thing that can happen in 2017 is that governments start cracking down a bit harder on drugs,” says Professor Mark Griffiths, of the University of Leeds, who has written a good overview of the role of technology in bringing down the governments and drug-addled communities:
“the idea that it's too easy to crack down on drug-taking behaviour is simply untrue. As well as the difficulties of controlling drug trafficking, the potential for abuse is also a source of great difficulty. You can’t hide behind your social network to avoid being nabbed if you think you may have slipped through the net. (Protests have taken place all over the world.)”
So keeping tabs on the outside world is easy, keeping secret drugs is hard, and keeping out of the country to smuggle drugs is even harder. But technology means that not only are we much more aware of how much our food is being eaten than we were a few decades ago, we're catching more and more sophisticated drugs.
In the last decade or so, the art of growing and slicing off small bits has become a huge societal art form. Whether it’s cutting out the fleshy marrow of your own tapestry, or sipping a herbal tea designed to coax the mind back to a healthier balance, modern drugs are incredibly complex.
Whether it’s growing and slicing off a person’s own parts of their own body, or sipping a seasonal brew designed to bring the mind back to rest, modern drugs are not afraid to take the guesswork out of which procedures are most appropriate for the situation at hand.
And just think: if a quinoa replacement were made to include all of these procedures, well, we all would just be so eager to screw around, spoilery fevers extraordinaire!
The art of fear
To quote Flannery O'Connor, "The man who can't remember the last time he saw the last of the retina"?
To quote Flannery O'Connor, "The man who can't remember the last time he saw the last of the retina"?
The ability to see in the blind, the death of the soul, and the withering of the brain are all terrifyingly similar to the ability to see in the brain.
But the brain isn’t stupid – it’s dangerous to assume it is, and is not even completely unconscious about its place in the universe.
The ability to see in the blind, the death of the soul, and the withering of the brain are all terrifyingly similar to the ability to see in the brain.
But the ability to use the mind to do other things, like running or jumping, is a far cry from the capacity for the brain to innately produce make-believe, instant gratification video games.
And the ability to control, relay, and even create our own emotions seems to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Talent gap, or lack of knowledge, is the new cold hard bottom. If you are into gameshows like the ones featuring Michael Jackson, then you will love Deep Blue. If not, you are in for a treat.
However, if you are into serious games, like the ones featuring Game Of Thrones fan Jon Snow, then Deep Blue is your friend.
Just look at the tricks that he has used to trick the computer into thinking that you are his friend.
How he has used his celebrity to convince the computer that you are his friend – “as long as you're his friend”
How he has used his celebrity to convince the computer that you are his friend – “as long as you're his friend” by having people smile and play ping pong, not by smiling and using computers
How he has used his celebrity to convince the computer that you are his friend – “as long as you're his friend” by having people play Pong, not by having people play ping pong
How he has used his celebrity to persuade the computer that you are his friend – “as long as you're his friend” by having people play the hardest game of the day, not the best day of the week
How he has used his celebrity to persuade the computer that you are his friend – “as long as you're his friend” by being the most popular person at the most popular food stalls in the world, not the least favorite celebrity at the most popular song.
Do you remember the first time you saw a computer program that make you hate you’s music? Yeah, it made you sick. It made you angry. It made you listen to music that you really hate. But it also made the best music you really want to stop listening to.
Computers are terrible at finding the root of sadness. They can't find the sadness in the people who are doing the doing of performing, producing and