Negativland The World Will Decide Lyrics

Hello?

We are extremely pleased that you are here (Forever)
It is good to come together for the purpose of co-creating
Do you agree? (Yes)
Just like that (Oh, no wonder)
You are knowing what you are wanting? (Umm)
No memory whatsoever (Hello)
It is an expanding thing, yes? (Hello)
And that's good, yes? (Hello? Can you hear me?)
Well here's what it says
It's beginning to rival people
This is what it says
It is beginning to rival people
This is what it says
Can you hear me?
Well here's what it says (Hello?)
The Pulse, like
Can you hear me?
The Pulse that is erratic and irregular
The Pulse
For thousands of minutes a month (Can you hear me?)
For dozens of hours a week (Hello?)

So I'm not interested in dying the way that people did in the past (Oh)
I would rather be dead than die of the diseases of aging
We're going to start to add ten, twenty, thirty years on your life
Longevity escape velocity (Because we're not dead today)
The point at which, for every year that you're alive
Technology is extending your life for more than a year
You don't have to die (Hello!)

People who want to live (Hello, hello)
Wouldn't it be nice to have the option (Yeah)
To extend our lives as long as we wish? (Woah! Three, two, one)
And we're starting to upload ourselves (What are you worried about?)
Several versions of you exploring the universe
Reanimate you in different forms
Something will be backing us up (Can you hear me?)

Because it is possible, it is inevitable
But we don't think it is inevitable
We think it can be stopped

And perhaps it's not even there (The Pulse)
But if it is (You recognize it)
Ingenious intelligence (I recognize it)
Helps to interrupt growth (You recognize it, I recognize it)
Thyrotoxic interpsace (Blocking duplication)
Clearly reduplicated (You recognize it! I already said that)
In a seven year old innocent child with thyrotoxic interspace
You do recognize it (Yes, yes, yes, Hello? Yes)
A variety of cells in the network must grow (You recognize it, yes)
This involves aggregation of an ever growing range of cells
I found it in the street (I mostly talked about my cancer)
You recognize it
As you can imagine, we certainly hope to do as well as the cellular phone industry

We're in the midst of an experiment
On my grandchildren and your children
We're in the midst of an experiment
It's the Pulse (Congratulations)
We don't have a control group
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities Over a lifetime (You're here)
That irregular pulsed signal (Congratulations)
The Pulse
I don't think you can do anything (Pulse)
But go ahead (Pulse)
We have more capital available than ever in human history
This is our last chance (Pulse)
Microwave radiation (Yeah)
And I think
In your owner's manual
It's a winner
Says that the smart phone should never be within about an inch of the body
The Pulse in your pocket
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?

Any sufficiently benevolent action
Is indistinguishable from malevolence
I am sad that you are leaving
A truly kind intelligence might decide
That the kindest and best thing for humanity
Is to end us

We want it, we don't doubt it
We want it, we imagine it
We want it, we believe it
We want it (The Pulse)
We feel good about wanting it (The Pulse)
And we say yes (Yes!)
And you can (Yes)
You want to (Yeah)
We know you do (No go ahead go ahead)
You want to (Yeah)
And you can (It's the Pulse)
We know you want to (The Pulse)
And you can (Pulse)
And it is done
It's done
Where are you, here I am
Where are you, here I am
It's done
Where are you, here I am, where are you (Is cancer contagious?)
It's done (Where are you where are you where are you)
It's done, it's done, it's gone
It's done, it's smart, it's done, it's smart
It's done, it's gone, It's done
We're getting away
It's gone, it's smart, it's done

And what is the Cloud?
Didn't we tell you? It's the Pulse
We assume that our digital lives will last forever
It's done
Just like any physical media that's been damaged
Once it's gone, it's done, it's eternal, it's huge
The future has a way of inventing itself

We have to be very careful that we don't get stuck in the myths (If we)
Of what is ethical (If you)
Hello?
Don't say hello

What's inevitable (Can you hear me?)
Is knowing the way I'm going to die
Wait a minute, you told me you heard my voice through the toaster?

Do you agree? (Yes)
Gone, it may as well not exist
This is the operator on your call to the Negativland (If we)
Are you Mr. Edge? (If you)
We haven't heard from that
Do you want us to keep trying for you? (Just like that)
You want to cancel?
Okay, we'll cancel for now, thank you

Oh
No wonder
No wonder
I had a conclusion
Do you want to hear it?
Yes
No wonder