At best, the Internet will remain a space of freedom for a year or two, but, within a few years, it will most probably have fallen into the hands of … - Friedrich Kittler

The only kind of politics I am interested in is military politics, to begin with. In fact, this is the only thing I can think of when one says politics.

The day is not far off when signal processing will reach the physical limits of feasibility. This absolute limit is where the history of communication technologies will literally come to an end.. the history of communication technologies as a series of strategic escalations. Without reference to the individual or to mankind, communication technologies will have overhauled each other until finally an artificial intelligence proceeds to the interception of possible intelligences in space.

how are culture and politics going to react to the slow demotion of their power? For both are predicated upon everyday speech and the normal human nervous system, which are both slow. However, neither speech nor the nervous system can be handled any more without machines preparing, assisting, and, in the end, even assuming some of their decision-making processes.