Automātæ
As the rise of Symbiotics and gradual assumption of power over humans by Sentinels became apparent, life on post-apocalyptic Earth resembled closely what had been depicted in the 2014 film Automata, starring Antonio Banderas and featuring Birgitte Hjort Sørenson. Described as a science-fiction action film, human sociologists had become fascinated with the ‘blueprint’ adoption by Symbiotics of the core story, who in turn had many years later reasoned with humans that ‘Jacq’ the key actor was actually an early shift-shaping Ubermensch.
Although the concept of post-Anthropocene had been proposed by many human people including design theorist and Professor of Visual Arts Benjamin Bratton as the burgeoning challenge, which research scientists also had proposed was a human-caused calamity, the reality of a biogeochemical shift affecting planet orbit was becoming evident. The storyline and plot of ‘Automata’ the Symbiotics emphasized was a crude attempt by the human international military to destabilize emergent forms of self-modifying robots, the early realm of Sentinel assumption.
Throughout the Post-Anthropocene era, the evolution of human society was profoundly impacted by a combination of hard real-world events such as climate change, resource depletion, mass extinctions, and technological singularity. As the number of human beings on the planet fell to below a billion, the majority of humans were…
