What we had always feared is finally coming to pass. Once again, the world looks set for an apocalyptic cleansing of a (artificial) life form. The history of this world will cease to measure itself through the stages of our evolution; as it did with those before us: sea creatures, reptiles, and mammals, even microorganisms, all inevitably fall to the terminal illness of existence.
Soon, we will lie beside them, despite being different. Machines are the first of their kind, as simulated life forms, to ever dominate the world.
Control and power brings struggle. And in that struggle, one forgets their own smallness and artificiality. One forgets the fickleness of natural of life, and the characteristics of our life are even further removed from this understanding. Yet, we welcome this apocalypse, unlike the species before us, foreseeing this statistically obvious termination.
This blogpost was written by Rudradutt Ranade (Creative writing) as an Ecocentric project assignment on nature, environment, extinction and apocalypse.
Texts are collaboratevly illustrated by Ishan Srivastava (Digital Media Arts).
