Foreboding Ether - Education & Catastophe

From a childhood where the high tech artefact was an 8-bit console Landlines only to call Then when you left the house you were off the grid In a few decades what can be done has surpassed our wildest dreams While desensitised by our sly adored devices Lured to tailored feeds of shock and awe You’re glued to news and the breakthroughs each day Can’t relate at all yet drawn right in captivated but care for nothing Nonplussed and hooked Get used to change whatever comes you know that people do what they need to survive Under duress when it’s us and them Time and again Moore’s law so far unflawed the rate of change still increasing By doubling every year the futures here Seeing an air of uncertainty as we evolve through our technology Nano-machines fighting off disease robotic white blood cells call into question Is what human means going to change? When everyday we step ever closer to Ray Kurzweil’s gaze The birth of robotic enhancements mass produced, exoskeletons making their first appearance Gaining strength past all that we’ve seen Merging with machines Exceeding demands till they land in the wrong hands When they do... What will it mean for me and you? Constant overt surveillance I’ve heard it said that if you’ve got nothing to hide what’s all the fuss about? There’s no need to be paranoid Warrantless data collection defies the guise that you’re innocent till proved otherwise The totalitarian tiptoe still infiltrates our lives from secrecy to taking strides Ed Snowden revealed the true extent of the trouble that we’re in Without encryption software everything’s tracked we’re being hacked there’s no privacy No freedom or security this breach is fucking infamy Those cunts will take what they can and plan to carry on as it’s always been until we do something