I think that the only way we can keep the machine from ruling us is to reclaim our real-world existence in a real-world way, uprooting those deeper issues of technology, and asserting, not only a consciously-informed knowledge, but our abilities to artistically “manipulate the machine”. This manipulation is exemplified, to some degree, in dealings with Eliza, the cyber psychologist, or in games like Facade (an interactive fiction), in which players like myself will trump the machine with our genuine humanness of thought, something the computer-programmed, simulated characters lack.
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