regressive transhumanism [or how the algorithms shape us]

%%red%%perhaps never in our short history, has our technology had more of an influence on how we look and act.%% algorithmic propaganda, persuasion, influence, and radicalisation means that machines are helping to shape the 21st century body and mind so much so that we are simply becoming a part of that algorithm. %%yellow%%instead of humans augmenting themselves with technology (think cybernetic augmentation etc), technology has effectively developed an augmentation strategy using our minds and bodies.%% the future has become us using machines to make a profit who are using us as a source of profit via the homogenisation of our bodies and brains through the algorithmic propensity towards ideological thought bubbles. %%orange%%whether corporeal homegenisation (bros and gals are all starting to look the same!) through plastic surgery and body modifications influenced by the algorithm, or the flattening of culture through appropriation of slang and language and the…