The machine hums! Did you know that? - In the book The Machine Stops (1909), Foster foresaw a distant dystopian future where all the communication and every kind of transportation needs were held by one big machine. In that dystopian future, any contact with environment, sights and sounds were considered as unnecessary. The protagonist of the novel, Kuno, who later in the book stopped the machine, once said the to his mother that “The Machine hums! Did you know that? Its hum penetrates our blood, and may even guide our thoughts” when he was trying to explain the evil behind the machine (Foster, 1909).
Adam 2.0 re-envisions the distant future (today?) from the Machine’s perspective. By the use of data from human body’s internal circulation principles, the work simulates how the machine penetrates into veins and mind, not to destruct but to create the new human. Adam 2.0 simulates a divine bio-hack.
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