“Cages are a relatively recent phenomenon in the development of our species. Although it may appear ironic that almost as soon as we began to cage animals, we began to live in cages of various kinds, this fact demonstrates the principle that operates to determine how our ‘inventions’ that propose convenience have an outcome that eventually directly opposes this promise.

As time progressed, more and more human beings were subjected to cages, first mentally, and then physically. In the modern world, our ‘cities’ have become complex prisons… and our ‘governments’ have developed into diseases of domination, misinformation, war and prisoneering.

Like cars and roads… ‘computers’ were initially modeled as miraculous labor-saving devices that might deliver a peaceful future and transform human suffering, yet we now live in an age where their propagation and survival is rapidly gaining precedence over our own.

Indeed, human beings now find themselves in competition with the »data we produce for survival and this is a conflict, still largely invisible to the common person, is one we are bound to lose … until and unless we recognize and invert the priorities from which our inventions arise, and the purposes to which they can be directed.”

— an a i