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prostoalex writes, "Wired magazine has coined a new term for the massive data centers built in the Pacific Northwest by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Cloudware is, ironically, a return of the centralized data and bandwidth power houses caused by the decentralized and distributed nature of the Internet. George Gilder thinks we're witnessing something monumental: 'According to Bell's law, every decade a new class of computer emerges from a hundredfold drop in the price of processing power. As we approach a billionth of a cent per byte of storage, and pennies per gigabit per second of bandwidth, what kind of machine labors to be born? How will we feed it? How will it be tamed? And how soon will it, in its inevitable turn, become a dinosaur?'"
what kind of machine labors to be born? How will we feed it? How will it be tamed? And how soon will it, in its inevitable turn, become a dinosaur?
How will we feed it? Read the article about the robot that identifies human flesh as bacon and see if that answers your question.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
> "what kind of machine labors to be born?"
As the saying goes, don't anthropomorphize machines: they hate that.
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...and in 2025 the Galactic publishing company, well known for their travel guide, The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, bought Google to include their data as a subset of the entry of a little planet in the backwaters of the universe, called earth. Just in case someone wished to travel there ....
Participatory Governance : The only feasible option for a real democracy, where everyone really does have a say.
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Computers getting too "smart", we've seen it before.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Incredibles (even though it turned out to be something different, the idea was still there)
Superman 3
Wargames
Terminator 1/2/3
All of these movies depict computers getting too smart then at some point start "thinking" for themselves. One of these days I'll finally get to publish my theory on how to prevent this. I'll give a short summary belo...
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