Yamamoto 4
The story of Ibis is a science
fiction novel from Japanese culture and is the work of Hiroshi Yamamoto. Spaces
between each story are referred to as
intermissions. Ibis tells of a ‘Black hole
Diver,’ a tale that represents the
futuristic vision of an artificial space station. The setup of the space
station along with its AI, Ilianthos, has no mandate to discourage people from
diving into the black hole and end up dying since none of them goes past the
event horizon. According to Ilianthos, a girl arrives who has a spaceship, and with
adequate knowledge and equipment necessary to attempt the Blackhole dive. However, once she makes the
dive, Ibis is not sure whether the girl
survives. This story strikes a chord in technological terms with developments
taking place currently, a connection that will be explored further.
A contemporary tech news story
that is reminiscent of the events in the tale ‘Black
hole diver’ ran in the Guardian newspaper. The newspaper article tells
of the modern day digital laundering technique, whose motivation is a cashless
society, one whose feasibility is seen in its increasing lean towards online
transactions (Busby n.p.). The parallel between Hiroshi Yamamoto’s tale of the
futuristic AIs who have a mandate to protect humanity and the article in the
Guardian newspaper on laundering as an aspect of cybercrime lies in the
capacity of machines to influence human life and activities (Busby n.p.). While
the AI machine in the Hiroshi Yamamoto story is sworn to protect humanity, it
is as helpless as the contemporary machines that include computers and the Internet
in directing human behavior. Eventually,
while the original intention of creating the machines was to improve human
life, human nature and its tendency towards evil has tarnished the influence of
the machines as well as the goodness that they intended for humanity. Will our
survival be as uncertain as that of the girl?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/17/cyberlaundering-funds-terror-internet-fake-transactions-cashless-society
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