The Organisational Management singularity, that’s what they’re trying to attain. Autonomous Organisational Management intelligence. Fully automated. Able to take these important Organisational Management decisions. So the Organisational Management programme just runs on by itself.
What does a sentient campus do with its sentience? Will it go rogue? Go fully Skynet and just destroy the humans?
Do you think it despises itself, this campus? Is that what it does with its supposed sentience?
It’s actually called The Centre for Technocratic Governnce.. They’re explicit about it.
Sure – there’s nothing hidden.
The Organisational Management strategic alliance with the biological sciences.
Sounds ominous. What are they planning? Gene-editing stuff? Synthetic biology? Future birthing centres a la Brave New World?
And there’s a strategic alliance with Food Sciences, too. They’re trying to synthesise food. So you don’t have farming anymore.
You guys have it all worked out.
This campus is a front line. We’re on the frontline. This is a war, right?
They’ve already won. They’ve conquered the territory. They’re busy with the clear-and-hold op now. And we’re just partisans. Domestic terrorists. The far right, or whatever.
They’ve swallowed the world, right? It’s all been devoured. Newcastle isn’t Newcastle anymore. The meaning of the world’s been changed.
They’ll snuff out the humanities just as they’ll snuff out humanity. The coming synth humanity won’t be studying the humanities. It won’t need them.
Was there really a before? Do you remember your old life? Before all this?
They’re listening and listening and listening.
We have to live … because that’s rebellion. They want us dead, so we have to live.
Is that it? What – just living?
Living against. Living against them. Living in defiance. Living in the opposite direction.
The opposite direction to what?
To their fucking direction.
Is that enough?
We’ve come this far, haven’t we?
This far. Far from what?
The campus is the world and the world’s the campus. That’s the way it’s going. They’ll be indistinguishable.
It’ll only be so long before they ask us to live here. To move in. That’s when the last part of the trap closes.
Yeah, as life beyond the stony wastes becomes harder and harder. Before the rest of the world turns to cannibalism, or whatever. Before it all turns zombie wars, or whatever.
Look, the whole world’s Organisational Management. You know that. It’s technology. Spreading through every part of human life. Colonising it all.
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