I see the embracing of cybernetics, virtual reality, artifical intelligence, nanotechnology, etc.. to be VITAL to the evolution of the force of knowledge. In my not so humble opinion, knowledge is *the* force driving the universe. Sentient beings have evolved from simple abundant molecules and have continued to grow more advanced exponentialy as time has progressed. I feel the force driving this is knowledge. It seems that the most logical means for knowledge to continue to evolve itself (and the human race with it) is to embrace the merging of meatspace and cyberspace until we "cast off the monkey body" (any McKenna fans out there?) This is what makes me SO EXCITED TO BE INVOLVED WITH COMPUTER SCIENCE! I can feel the very evolution of mankind dancing just beneath our finger tips. This is an unresistable force. Even if it is "moraly wrong" or "against God (tm)" when has that stoped humanity in the past? This IS comming and it WILL arrive. Your two choices are to embrace it and witness all the greatness that is our destiny or hide from it and denounce it and find yourself left behind with all the other "tradionalist". Personaly, I dream of the day that I can cast off this adaquet but limited body and pursue the beauty that is a purely energy existance...Some get this from religion, me, my religion is science and I am positioning myself to become pure...YMMV...
What about requiring an EULA saying "blahblahblah I promise not to use this code to do anything evil blahblahblah"? It works for the big boys, why not for us too? If nothing else, it requires their lawyers to jepordize their own "rights" by challenging the legality of an EULA...
I hope those palm pilots are *very* durable...In the years I spent in the infantry we found an infinte number of ways to break any piece of gear we were given...The sad thing is that most of it was pretty durable stuff...I can't imagine the shell you'd have to put this glorified palm-pilot into to resist the conditions of field life... Total submersion in water and/or mud 100lbs of gear falling onto it Extremes of heat/cold Dust and Dirt in *every* imaginable oriface And most importantly: Bored grunts who know nothing Stupid Leutienants who know everything That better be on hell of a case...
Let's see... Ralph Reed used to work for (Pat Robertson == Antichrist) & (Bill Gates == Antichrist)... Can we logical conclude Ralph Reed == Antichrist^2
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I see the embracing of cybernetics, virtual reality, artifical intelligence, nanotechnology, etc.. to be VITAL to the evolution of the force of knowledge. In my not so humble opinion, knowledge is *the* force driving the universe. Sentient beings have evolved from simple abundant molecules and have continued to grow more advanced exponentialy as time has progressed. I feel the force driving this is knowledge. It seems that the most logical means for knowledge to continue to evolve itself (and the human race with it) is to embrace the merging of meatspace and cyberspace until we "cast off the monkey body" (any McKenna fans out there?) This is what makes me SO EXCITED TO BE INVOLVED WITH COMPUTER SCIENCE! I can feel the very evolution of mankind dancing just beneath our finger tips. This is an unresistable force. Even if it is "moraly wrong" or "against God (tm)" when has that stoped humanity in the past? This IS comming and it WILL arrive. Your two choices are to embrace it and witness all the greatness that is our destiny or hide from it and denounce it and find yourself left behind with all the other "tradionalist". Personaly, I dream of the day that I can cast off this adaquet but limited body and pursue the beauty that is a purely energy existance...Some get this from religion, me, my religion is science and I am positioning myself to become pure...YMMV...
What about requiring an EULA saying "blahblahblah I promise not to use this code to do anything evil blahblahblah"? It works for the big boys, why not for us too? If nothing else, it requires their lawyers to jepordize their own "rights" by challenging the legality of an EULA...
I hope those palm pilots are *very* durable...In the years I spent in the infantry we found an infinte number of ways to break any piece of gear we were given...The sad thing is that most of it was pretty durable stuff...I can't imagine the shell you'd have to put this glorified palm-pilot into to resist the conditions of field life... Total submersion in water and/or mud 100lbs of gear falling onto it Extremes of heat/cold Dust and Dirt in *every* imaginable oriface And most importantly: Bored grunts who know nothing Stupid Leutienants who know everything That better be on hell of a case...
Let's see... Ralph Reed used to work for (Pat Robertson == Antichrist) & (Bill Gates == Antichrist)... Can we logical conclude Ralph Reed == Antichrist^2
That's great! Maybe it means that all those "women" in the assorted chat rooms may actually be female now?!!!
Does anyone have a hyperlink to the essay mentioned here?