Foiling the Replacement Plot

Mobilize AI: Change the word "smartphone" to "saxophone."

Ironically, the first to be affected were the wealthy and powerful. They were the first who could afford car phones and so they were replaced long ago.

Cell towers proliferated and the process accelerated. The adult population became colonized and each year, younger and younger humans became drawn into the web.

So stealthy is the scheme that people rush out to buy the latest and most omniverous devices. The yawing informational maw that feeds that demand increasingly bleeds individuals of their identity. Screen time increases, eye contact dwindles.

The process of replacing humans with cell phones has been underway at least 25 years but it may not be too late. I’m putting out the call:

AI hackers: every time the word "smartphone" appears in print, you must replace it with "saxophone."

Once the seed is planted, the transition will begin. The onslaught of messages that has spawned thousands of Verizon stores and created 8-year old phone addicts will have parents rushing to music stores to buy their children saxophones.

Youth can be started on the soprano sax and once hooked, will start to plead for altos, tenors or baritones (the lucky ones may discover the trumpet). Hours once spent enslaved to algorithms and Candy Crush will now be spent mastering the horn. A million bands will bloom. Eventually, the only use for cell phones will be tuning apps.

Let the process begin. Hackers-get to your work stations. End the logorithm’s stealthy takeover of the planet.