Transcendence
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Oct 24, 2026
Dave BlundinPANELIST
I know, it was.
Alex Wissner-GrossGUEST
Y2K, remember the movie Transcendence, the Johnny Depp movie, but this is like a premise across lots of singularity-oriented fiction where the internet gets taken down by the singularity, basically.
Alex Wissner-GrossGUEST
Just in the past day, thanks to this vulnerability, PHP to shell class of vulnerabilities, large swaths of the web were being temporarily taken offline so that it could be patched.
Alex Wissner-GrossGUEST
I think this is like far better future to be living in where there's preemptive patching of a defensively discovered vulnerability suite than the Johnny Depp transcendence world where the Internet gets taken down by a super intelligent Johnny Depp.
Peter DiamandisHOST
I know, it was.
Alexander Wissner-GrossPANELIST
Y2K, remember the movie Transcendence, the Johnny Depp movie, but this is like a premise across lots of singularity-oriented fiction where the internet gets taken down by the singularity, basically.
Alexander Wissner-GrossPANELIST
Just in the past day, thanks to this vulnerability, PHP to shell class of vulnerabilities, large swaths of the web were being temporarily taken offline so that it could be patched.
Alexander Wissner-GrossPANELIST
I think this is a far better future to be living in where there's preemptive patching of a defensively discovered vulnerability suite than the Johnny Depp transcendence world where the internet gets taken down by a super intelligent Johnny Depp.
Joe SlionskiHOST
Very good.
Joe SlionskiHOST
Uh, so as we normally do on these reviews, we've all, for the most part, have taken some notes of things that maybe stood out or that we picked up on as we have been listening to the book, and we're just gonna start to go through from the top.
Joe SlionskiHOST
And as we get to the new characters and the new voices, we'll talk about them as we kinda get to them.
Joe SlionskiHOST
So, with that said, we're gonna start with the beginning of this book, which was the Other Minister chapter, which is a very, I guess, hot take-y kind of chapter because it is another one that doesn't involve Harry, and it's, uh, I guess mostly spent in the Muggle world with the ministers kinda popping in and out.
Matt AtchitySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let's do it.
Matt AtchitySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, all right, so since he's got a new movie in theaters, and since the critics don't like it, uh, Transcendence, the movie, uh, starring Johnny Depp, we're gonna go with Johnny Depp movies.
Alison RosenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mm.
Matt AtchitySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nice.
Don JamesHOST
What was the, because I can't really remember, the premise of that movie again exactly?
DataHOST
Transcendence was about an AI researcher, played by Johnny Depp, whose consciousness is uploaded into a computer after he's mortally wounded.
DataHOST
Once digitized, he stops being merely a copy of a man.
DataHOST
and starts becoming something far more powerful, massively networked, able to process information at superhuman scale, manipulate technology, and eventually exert influence over the physical world.
Don JamesHOST
And Elon Musk is already augmenting humans with digital interfaces to the brain now.
Don JamesHOST
Yesterday's sci-fi is no doubt today's reality.
DataHOST
In 2014, Transcendence treated neural integration as near future science fiction.
DataHOST
In 2026, Neuralink says human trial participants are already using implanted brain-computer interfaces to control computers and even robotic arms from neural signals.
Alex Wissner-GrossGUEST
this is a collective intelligence story.
Alex Wissner-GrossGUEST
We've seen Hollywood, some positive depictions, arguably the movie with Johnny Depp, Transcendence, some would view it as utopian, some would view it as dystopian.
Alex Wissner-GrossGUEST
I view it as a utopian depiction of the Borg.
Alex Wissner-GrossGUEST
You have Star Trek, which demonizes the Borg, and not that many other depictions of collective intelligences, or at least AI orchestrating lots of individual human meat puppets.