Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the year 2045 would be the threshold of the technological singularity - the moment when the fusion of man and machine, in his opinion, should become irreversible and change the nature of civilization. But the uniqueness, apparently, will not become a one-time event with a festive date: it comes gradually, now, through everyday technologies that imperceptibly rearrange the perception of reality. In 2021, Chinese venture capitalist Kai-fu Li and science fiction writer Chen Qiupen published the project “AI-2041. Ten pictures of our future" is a book in which artificial intelligence is presented as an environment in which a person lives his daily life. Most of what was described in it has become our reality now, and especially the fact that due to the development of technology, we can hardly distinguish between reality and reality. Back then, "deeppike" still seemed like an exotic term from lab presentations; Today, synthesized voices, faces and "appearances" have become the norm of the information space, improving day by day. Lee saw such technologies mainly as tools of deception and manipulation, capable of destroying trust in image and word. But for power technologies, deep fake networks and non-Russian networks in general are a revelation of a different order: it allows not only to deceive the voter, but to maintain a political form in the physical absence of its subject. The case of "Schrödinger's politicians" in this sense is not so much news as the old substance in a new form. A deputy's practice of voting "for himself and that guy," walking down the ranks in a plenary meeting and pushing buttons for his colleagues, has made lawmaking a ritual of attendance for quite some time. Political technologies in general have historically been concerned with creating an image of a living, contradictory person who is comfortable in public life: stable, familiar, designed for an emotional response.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the year 2045 would be the threshold of the technological singularity - the moment when the fusion of man and machine, in his opinion, should become irreversible and change the nature of civilization. But the uniqueness, apparently, will not become a one-time event with a festive date: it comes gradually, now, through everyday technologies that imperceptibly rearrange the perception of reality. In 2021, Chinese venture capitalist Kai-fu Li and science fiction writer Chen Qiupen published the project “AI-2041. Ten pictures of our future" is a book in which artificial intelligence is presented as an environment in which a person lives his daily life. Most of what was described in it has become our reality now, and especially the fact that due to the development of technology, we can hardly distinguish between reality and reality. Back then, "deeppike" still seemed like an exotic term from lab presentations; Today, synthesized voices, faces and "appearances" have become the norm of the information space, improving day by day. Lee saw such technologies mainly as tools of deception and manipulation, capable of destroying trust in image and word. But for power technologies, deep fake networks and non-Russian networks in general are a revelation of a different order: it allows not only to deceive the voter, but to maintain a political form in the physical absence of its subject. The case of "Schrödinger's politicians" in this sense is not so much news as the old substance in a new form. A deputy's practice of voting "for himself and that guy," walking down the ranks in a plenary meeting and pushing buttons for his colleagues, has made lawmaking a ritual of attendance for quite some time. Political technologies in general have historically been concerned with creating an image of a living, contradictory person who is comfortable in public life: stable, familiar, designed for an emotional response.