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CANNED LIFE |

CANNED LIFE |

«Our place in the universe is accidental. We are weak and mortal, but it’s not the holy will of the gods; it’s just the way things happen to be at the moment. And this is radically unsatisfactory, not because we direly miss the shelter of the Deity, but because, looked at objectively, the value of human suffering is a dump. The human condition can be changed, and it will be changed, and is changing; the only real questions are how and to what end.

This «anti-humanist» conviction in cyberpunk is not simply some literary stunt to outrage the bourgeoisie; this is an objective fact about culture in the late twentieth century. Cyberpunk didn’t invent this situation; it just reflects it. Today it is common to see tenured scientists espousing horrifically radical ideas: nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, cryonic suspension of the dead, downloading the contents of the brain... Hubristic mania is loose in the halls of academe, where everybody and his sister seem to have the plan to set the cosmos on its ear. Fierce moral anger at the prospect is the weakest of reeds; if there were a devilish drug around that could extend our sacred God-given lifespans by a hundred years, the Pope would be the first in line. We already live every day through means of outrageous actions with unforeseeable consequences for the whole world. The world population has doubled since 1970; the natural world, which used to surround humankind with its vast Gothic silences, is now something that has to be cataloged and cherished.»

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Nowadays, social and personal sustainability is becoming an essential issue to settle. People like to try to predict the future while exaggerating crises in proportion to years of perspective. In the article, the tendencies of the end will be analyzed with a focus on the sustainability of man as an individual and society changes.

Cyberpunk, as a genre, is close to antiutopia; however, it always focuses on technologies and how influential they can be. Works of cyberpunk make it possible to see different views on how humanity will embrace technology and see it solving the crisis of conjunction as a current social crisis but in a futuristic environment.

Fusion with technology creates a cyborga «Meta- human»; in conjunction with technology and a new society, a « MetaSociety» will appear.

But what are «Meta-human» and «Meta- Society» would be? Would they become more sustainable in comparison to us? This questions article will give you the answer.

Article Outline:

1. What is Cyberpunk?

2. How real is cybernization?

3. Problems of «Meta-human.»

4. Crisis of «Meta-Society.»

5. Conclusion

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