‘Limited connectivity’: the struggle for identity within the Technological Singularity, a scripted response

Abstract

CHARACTERS: TROND EVE A Laptop (As the audience enter they see a face projected on a large screen ‘looking’ impassively at them. This is TROND. Occasionally he seems to see people and give slight nods and smiles of acknowledgement. His voice, when he speaks, is broadcast over the auditorium speakers. The stage is bare apart from the screen and a couple of chairs.) (The audience settles, the houselights dim. After a moment:)