He (Timothy Leary) went on to explain his core problem with the Media Lab and the digital universe these technology pioneers were envisioning: “They want to recreate the womb.” As Leary the psychologist saw it, the boys building our digital future were developing technology to simulate the ideal woman—the one their mothers could never be. Unlike the human mother who failed them, a predictive algorithm could anticipate their every need in advance and deliver it directly, removing every trace of friction and longing. These guys would be able to float, fully fed and serviced, in their virtual bubbles—what the Media Lab called “Artificial Ecology.”

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff

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