/lit/ - Literature

Age of tech. We walk around with computers in our pockets that would've been the size of a living room and the price of a skyscraper 30 years ago. We are constantly online and communicating. Human organs are grown in labs. We're getting closer to fully understanding the human brain. Artificial intelligence is getting more and more complex. Technology in general is developing at an exponential rate. If this continues, our generation might be the first to live well over the age of a 150 or perhaps 200 years old. We might experience mind uploading, space colonies, androids that are almost indistinguishable from humans. We are the Transhumanist generation. We will see things no one before could have ever imagined. We live in the most interesting times yet.

>>2402265
>3000 novels snugly inside coat pocket
>vulgar
>carrying around heaps of shit like a pack animal
>patrician

Nope. Unless you have an actual slave to carry your stuff, traveling light and minimizing. Also, you would do well to learn the difference between gadgets and important, lasting technological changes. But then I guess you're the type of guy to call a smartphone a useless gadget but manages to own a typewriter without shame.

Now I'm all enthusiastic and want to read stories about the glorious internet generation.

Any recommendations, post-geographical hive mind?

>>2306947

Ah, you're right of course. It wasn't a case of an afterworld, but it was one of 'escaping into nothingness' in the sense of taming the highs and lows and in a sense damage control.

I should've been more critical where I tried to be to pleasant.

Would you agree that probably the main difference between Buddhism and Nietzsche in the case of suffering is that Buddhists merely accept it (albeit wholly), whereas Nietzsche tries to passionately love it?

The problem with the latter, I find, is that it depends on emotions and passions and is relatively unstable. I've more than once fried to incorporate the creed of Amor Fati into my life, but found it a lot more difficult than mere acceptance, and a lot more prone to frustration.