Neither Human Nor Divine: The Dream of Acceleration
On the strange vertigo of living inside a dream that has quarterly earnings and push notifications.
There are moments when the world feels slightly unreal. When the light seems too sharp, the pace too fast, the progress too relentless. It's the feeling of living inside a dream you can't quite wake from, except this dream has quarterly earnings and push notifications.
We're accelerating. Anyone paying attention can feel it. Technology compounds on itself. What took a decade now takes a year. What took a year now takes a month. And we, soft biological creatures built for a slower world, are trying to keep up.
But acceleration toward what, exactly? That's the question we've stopped asking. Or maybe we're afraid of the answer.