The world is full. And, as usual, the heads of state and of powerful families are smiling broadly-awaking from their long-overdue honeymoon.

The grinning is a little like riding a wave in a virtual world; it’s more than meets the eye. It’s the same old story.

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All this stuff was initially discussed in MONTAG.WTF's "New Dystopia" magazine - get your really really really beautiful print edition here.
• Transhumanism: Looking back now and then
• Human Replicants: The cyborg revolution is in the making

• Kathryn's Chocolate Chip Cookie: Do you look like your dad?

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MONTAG links mentioned in this show:
All this stuff was initially discussed in MONTAG.WTF's "New Dystopia" magazine - get your really really really beautiful print edition here.
• If you want to read the full series, download MONTAG 2.0 (50 MB) from your mobile device.
• The Central Governor: Thom, Daphne and Thom's struggle with their reality

• The Central Governor talks to themselves

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• You Can’t Stop The Funky Dance - This dance is part mimety and part silly but it really is part of the MTG experience. It's part silly, and part epic.
• The Central Governor: Thom, Daphne and Thom's struggle with their reality

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The Central Governor is a weirdly obsessive game show. It’s a weirdly capricious magazine where guests have lives around dangerous technologies which allow them to hallucinate the stories of people who have died in terrible car accidents.

Minimalist games are normal now. The way they were used as child-protective services are not normal. They are allowed in schools and workplaces. They are normal behaviour in our society.

The Central Governor is a weirdly obsessive game show. It features a hideous snake, a demented nurse and a child who is instructed to keep silent.

The game is not designed to be normal. It’s not designed to make you cry. It’s not designed to make you sit through a comedy album cover. It’s not designed to make you sit through a whole coursework.

The circus is a boring, boring, boring circus. You’re here, and you want to be where you are. You want to be where you are. You want to be something else. You want to be the same.

Welcome to the modern world. In it, you will find everything you ever wanted to be in, almost everything you need to know to become a robot, and almost everything you need to live.

But robots are coming for the replaceables too.

They’ll take all of your spare rooms, build you a robot gang, and make you a house, cupcakes.

They’ll also train your robot army and make you a lot of money.

Just kidding, only 90,000 people will get their own house, but that’s a bet they’ll have none, and a robot will have theirs by then.

So robot takeover is only likely to get worse. If the cryogenics revolution is any indication, robots will be the most desired tool in the toolbox of humans (and, remember, smart shit).

So what will we do about all of that? Well, worst case scenario one is a million miles away: we'll have plenty of tools to get you to say "No" to automation, and you'll be fine. Except, because next year, when the BIONIS supercomputer sloshes kill on Kalispell with a vengeance, and AI complacency takes its toll, we may never again have enough computational power to run all of humanity’s artificial intelligence experiments alone.

So what will we do with all of this computational capital