From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 12:35:18 MDT
Some of the songs in my >H Music folder beside The Land Canaan and
E-Shaun:
Mobius Dick - Upload Your Mind, Indistinguishable From Magic
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie - The Privacy Song
Hexnillium - The Logik Gate
Dj[e.m.i.x] - The Future is Now
The ones - Flawless
Jef Planet - Technology Works
Symphony X - Evolution
Vizer - Sentient AI Assembly (you can really hear the software starting
to sing)
Zeromancer (Project Pitchfork Remix) - Clone Your Lover (for a more
humoristic version: Neurotron 606 - I Cloned Myself For Christmas)
Vacuum - Big Ideas, I Breathe, Nuclear India and many others
Utah Saints - Technknowledgy
Shamen - Destination Eschaton
Orlando Soundtrack - Coming
Oingo Boingo - Capitalism
Bosco - Satellite
Bob Kanefsky - The Moon is Also A Satellite
Project Pitchfork - Revolution Now (just to stress you up and go out and
DO something! Alpha Omega is also nice)
Spock - Electric
[We are getting closer to the future every day
We have to start thinking in an electronic way
'Course soon there'll be machines wherever you stand
So leave the past behind you, I hope you understand that...]
Enemies of reality - Post-Human Popculture (more fun, less messy)
Digida - Nanotek (hear the fine motion controllers wave and dance)
Moby - We Are All Made of Stars
Mr. Bungle - None of Them Were Robots (actually somewhat anti-transhuman,
but filled with wonderful imagery:
Mendel's machines replicate in the night
In the black iron prison of St. Augustine's light
He's paying the bills and they're doing him proud
They can float their burnt offerings on assembler clouds
With omega point in the sight
The new Franklins fly their kites
And the post modern empire is ended tonight ]
DNA - Information ("Information, everybody wants it. Information,
everybody needs it!")
Thesaurus Effect - Immortality
[Don't need to leave an historic legacy
Don't want you inheriting all my stuff
Your future's something I want to share - I need to see
I've had a good run but it's nowhere near enough
Don't need a nifty stone in a churchyard by the sea
Don't want you staring at an urn with me inside
Your bedtime story needs to come from only me
Don't put me in the ground, bring me along for the ride
I don't want much I just want immortality
I don't want much I just want immortality
I just cant see a world with one less of me
Don't want to check out; I want immortality! ]
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
311- Evolution
[Evolution has exponential timing
it'll be half as long til the next breakthrough that
blows our mind
It's up to the people to brave on with experimentation
Move forth the species by using our imagination]
Philip Glass - The Grid (the soundtrack for the singularity?)
Jordin Kare - Fire in the Sky
[Prometheus they say brought gods fire down to man,
and we cut it, tamed it, trained it since our history began.
Now we are going back to heaven just to look him in the eye
and thre's a thunder across the land and a fire in the sky]
Leslie Fish - Hope Eyrie
Julia Ecklar - The Phoenix
[My wings are made of tungsten,
my flesh of glass and steel.
I am the joy of Terra
for the power that I wield!]
VNV Nation - Fragments, Arclight / Lastlight
[At first light lay proud foundations.
Sense the greatness that before you unfolds.
Seek no more for hollow answers.
Answers that lay within you all along.
Farewell to dawns seen through saddened eyes.
Farewell to pasts to sorrows chained.
Forget your fears and want no more.
You will be strong and want no more.
You'll be adored. You will have everything.
You will be strong and want no more.
Forget your fears. You will have everything.
And want no more.]
In other languages:
Kjell Höglund - Maskinerna Är Våra Vänner ("The machines are our
friends"; intended as ironic, but I loved it as a kid.)
Welle Erdball - Wir Wollen Keine Menschen Sein (*very* transhuman!)
[Nun kommt und seht uns einmal an
Wir sind gefangen in uns selbst
Und laufen nur im Kreis
Doch es könnte anders sein...
Wir fordern endlich unseren Preis
Und wollen nicht mehr sterblich sein
Für diese Welt zu schwach
So erschaffen wir uns neu
Wir werden noch viel stärker sein
Und sehen auch viel besser aus
Komm laß uns anders sein
Nur ein Schritt, dann sind wir frei
Wenn wir hoch zum Himmel sehen
Können wir uns nicht verstehen
Denn unsere Gehirne sind zu klein...
Wir wollen keine Menschen sein!
Jetzt sind wir keine Menschen mehr
Wir werden leben für die Ewigkeit
Und ich glaube...
Ich glaub' wir können fliegen!
Wir wissen alles (und) haben die Macht
Wir können fliegen um die Welt
Jetzt sind wir Gott sehr nah
Und stehen fast über ihm
Wenn wir hoch zum Himmel sehen...]
Another related song is "Laß uns ein Computer sein", and "Die Computer
Verlassen Die Welt" is a fun take on ethical AI.
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