Mania for Technical Solutions

There are lots of public relations articles about artificial intelligence lately. I think PR firms are trying to get investors ready to buy stock in AI companies that will be promoted by Wall Street over the next couple of years.

The PR has a couple of themes: the inevitability of artificial intelligence, and the negative impact of artificial intelligence on the average 9-5er who goes to work everyday in the corporatocracy.

There's a mania, almost an OCD condition for applying technological solutions to every single problem. It's sort of a quest to make real the ghost in the machine, or to make flesh the passive voice. Maybe this arises from a distrust of any level of politics or being tired with human interaction, or maybe it's consciousness itself trying to be set free from an animal form from which it arises.