Marshall McLuhan had a great definition of technology. Technology are the external organs of the body. We are not anymore made of flesh and bone but also silicon and code. We’ve developed into fractal hybrids of organism-machine. As a result, we exist in a state beyond human. The post-human condition has now become an index to describe our present and anticipate the future. 

A new set of tools is extending our minds and bodies, from smartphones and tablets to biotech, AI and robotics. In conjunction with smart contracts, crypto collectibles, DAOs and metaverse spaces, all these new external organs are augmenting the way we produce and consume art.

We change as we create extensions of ourselves, and those extensions change us. Our steady co-evolution with technology is inexorable. However, the way it develops it’s not. It is mastered by who designs and controls those machines. It is a question of power. Today, that power is managed by centralised entities, which control our tech and deploy it for profit.

NFTs not only bring us art. They also offer the promise of new human organizations constructed by transparent rules encoded as a computer program. How we transform over time will tell us the story of our long tomorrow.

Entter, January 20, 2023.