Future Now Making the Machines of Tomorrow - Nick Land

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: stage-1 acceptance ruling — lane open-web-talk approved for opus-only hosting; mp3 tier deferred pending a disk volume). Series: standalone. Source: video original (.mp4).

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• 00:00:00

  Hi everybody, very good to see everybody here of course. Five minutes, 300 seconds, obviously nowhere near enough time. Easy answer, print some. Listening to what's going on here, that's not so hard. We've got organ printing already, crank it forward a bit, do some brain printing, mash them all together into…

• 00:01:56

  I think it's one of the questions that we have to address in this question about now and the future. So I'll start by saying thanks. Thank you so much for your inspiring provocations. I just wanted to start with a really big question which I think relates to all of our projects in the room, which is the extent…

• 00:03:51

  So I think that these sort of questions, they might seem, of course, extremely arcane, but ultimately I think they're the questions that are being raised when you say, how much can you actually design or plan things? And to the extent that you feel you can do that, it's because you think the kind of structures…

• 00:05:00

  I mean, of course, there's nothing that seems so terrifying when you walk outside and everyone's being friendly, but it's not that hard to sort of speculate out. And say where this is leading, especially for someone who is immersed in the world of science fiction, is a story that is quite terrifying. And at the same…

• 00:06:36

  And I think, actually... I guess... I guess people think in a way entropy is a bad thing, but really people are most comfortable in a world that consists of entropy and agency. You know, they like to think that the things around them are basically falling to pieces except when people put them together and they…

• 00:07:29

  You know, it's like... It's distributed over enough time, it's easy enough to push it into different compartments that people don't quite see it. But the notion of a whole bunch of things... Coming together without agents, without people controlling it, without any recognizable goals or objectives... And actually…

• 00:08:36

  And it's like a little fragile glass-like particle. But as they start falling, it starts pooling together. And you can see it all running back into this organized entity. And that is an absolutely just exemplary convergent wave. I mean, that looks horrible. Horrific. And there's no doubt about it, horrific. But that's…

• 00:09:40

  I'm just saying that it's a little bit of a sort of a sort of a sort of a sort of a sort of a sort of a