To create these pictures I used the generator DALL-E, an Open AI system that produces images from a text prompt in natural language. I input the descriptions for the glossary terms below into the system and these are what emerged from its imagination :) Then I made a selection of the best :) - Viera Čákanyová
botomori
boat (eng) /boʊt/ mori (lat)
* inspired by the Japanese phenomenon ‘hikikomori’, a form of severe social withdrawal
* a natural person who decides to follow their mortal fate
* leaves for the sea by boat
* registers their [life story] on analogue film
EON
* a planetary technosphere, online digital environment - the virtual layer of the planetary grid
G-DAO
* Global Decentralised Autonomous Organization
* a digital body managing/governing society, based on artificial intelligence exercising a form of futarchy, operating in the planetary technosphere called the EON
Eremocene
* age of loneliness
* a neologism created by Harvard biology professor E.O. Wilson
* depicts a future epoch marked by an existential and material isolation of humans resulting from extinction of many other forms of biological life
* a significant decline in Earth's biodiversity caused by human demography and activity
wetware safari
wetware /wɛtwɛ:/
* human brain cells or thought processes regarded as analogous to, or in contrast with computer systems
* a domain of biological non-human species (animals, plants) as well as people who refuse to merge with the EON
desert people
* together with botomoris, hunters and gatherers, a separate group of natural people
* a back-to-the-roots movement emphasizing the human connection with the physical world of nature and the elements
* regarded by agents of the EON as extreme or heretical, not following implementation protocols into the planetary technosphere
* exhibiting signs of sect-like behaviour
neo-cosmism
* dominant posthuman religion of the Eremocene, worshiped by members of the new elite
* based on two main principles: immortality and interplanetarianism
* new world order, new objective reality, new culture
* inspired by technological and scientific achievements of the late Eremocene
life story
* a ‘terminus technicus’ designating a mandatory template designed by G-DAO
* a digital imprint of a person’s existence, recorded through a strict protocol and stored in a cloud archives
* [botomori people] avoided this official template, using off-template analogue audiovisual testaments instead, unreachable by G-DAO
original character
* a biological master copy of the posthuman virtual entity
* an analogue fossil hidden beneath the digital data at the bottom of the planetary grid
vector space
* graphically represents how artificial intelligence/neural networks “understand” natural language models
* words or phrases from the vocabulary are mapped to vectors that encode the meaning of words; words that are closer in the vector space are expected to be similar in meaning
* conceptually, it involves the mathematical embedding from space with many dimensions per word to a continuous vector space with a much lower dimension.
