Our lectures.
The sense that these are the last human-born students, pretty much. And certainly the last humanities students.
Homo sapiens, or whoever will be, will only be born artificially from now on. In artificial wombs. There’ll be no mothers and fathers. Homo borg genesis will be born from machines and raised by machines.
And they’ve been preparing for years. We’re already robots, really. The great robotization is ongoing. The change, when it comes, will only be a matter of degree. They’re only be completing what they’ve already begun.
Our lectures.
The last words of philosophy. The last words, before the last audience of unaltered humans. To the last unaltered members of homo sapiens. Before the synth takeover. Before the new Creation, the fake creation.
Before the great hollowing out. Before the great gutting. Before we were to be made receptables of the dead, of demons. Before we circuitised. Before we’re filled with molecular machines. Before our colonisation by neurotech.
Our lectures.
The great cull is probably taking place before us. Their genes are probably being eneg-edited as they sit there. Their frontal cortices are being dismantled. They’re probably being sterilized before our eyes. At any moment they’re going to morph into zombies.