"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
"THE EVENT"
(TOMORROWLAND TODAY!
"WE ARE ALL FUTURISTS NOW"
Awakening to Alexa's alarm.Soothing
SIRI.
GPS and robo-calls.Self-Driving
TESLA.
We are already embedded in THE
MATRIX.
To go off-line /off the grid harder
than hackers.
My friends leave FAKEBOOK,then
return.
They lose money on BITCOIN.All science
fiction is true.
Terminator drones bomb
Afghanistan,Syria.
TESLA sacks nine percent of its
workforce.
Stock Market run by algorithms.Same
with oil prices.
The "Human Stain"is fast
disappearing/like old jobs
‘The Event was their
euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion,
virus, or hack that takes everything down.’ Illustration: Matt Huynh
Last year, I got invited to a
super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would
be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever
been offered for a talk – about half my annual professor’s salary – all to
deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology”.
I’ve never liked talking about the
future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I’m
asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols
for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, Crispr. The audiences are
rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential
impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money
talks, so I took the gig.
After I arrived, I was ushered
into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a
microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my
audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys – yes, all men – from the
upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized
they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of
technology. They had come with questions of their own.
...BECAUSE SOME OF US THINK THAT THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT
What happens when you mix what is - arguably - the world's most interesting record company, with an anarchist manic-depressive rock music historian polymath, and a method of dissemination which means that a daily rock-music magazine can be almost instantaneous?
Most of this blog is related in some way to the music, books and films produced by Gonzo Multimedia, but the editor has a grasshopper mind and so also writes about all sorts of cultural issues which interest him, and which he hopes will interest you as well.
Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
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