The music industry IS NOT LOSING millions of dollars a week because not everybody who downloads a mp3 from a band would otherwise buy the album! Most people buy the albums they want. If I only want "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla, I WILL NOT
WE ARE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE! We're a superpower which means we have super-power. We intend to use it until we have been so thouroughly corrupted by it that the rest of the world fucks us over. Or until the anarchists destroy New York and Los Angeles. (what a great day that will be)
Proof that England is riding the internet horse backwards again. It's absurd to think that the ISP's can filter all the data. Close to impossible and certainly not financially profitable.
Or with a 1 terahertz chip inside we could all tell it what to do with voice commands through headphones with microphone attachment. Forget the keyboard.
Rather than fearing the power of machines, it is better to embrace it. Few would argue the invention of a fork lift was a bad thing. Mechanization helped to make computers possible. The incredible capabilities computers do and will offer can help humans if put to our use. In the future, it way well be possible to wear a contact lens that automatically focuses your vision. Implants could synthesize drugs to treat or prevent many conditions in emergencies. Implants connected to the mind could give us extra-sensory perception. Jacking a computer into the mind could help us solve problems faster than one brain alone could.
What if computers eventually "think" like Data in The Next Generation? Suppose Data's successor is smarter than Captain Picard? Would you fear being led by a machine like the crew of Enterprize feared letting the computer pilot the ship in one episode? If you worry about a Terminator future, you need only look to Asimov's 3 Laws of Robots. No decent computer system today is without failsafes, and neither should the computer systems of the future.
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The music industry IS NOT LOSING millions of dollars a week because not everybody who downloads a mp3 from a band would otherwise buy the album! Most people buy the albums they want. If I only want "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla, I WILL NOT
WE ARE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE! We're a superpower which means we have super-power. We intend to use it until we have been so thouroughly corrupted by it that the rest of the world fucks us over. Or until the anarchists destroy New York and Los Angeles. (what a great day that will be)
Err, that would be against DMCA.
Proof that England is riding the internet horse backwards again. It's absurd to think that the ISP's can filter all the data. Close to impossible and certainly not financially profitable.
Or with a 1 terahertz chip inside we could all tell it what to do with voice commands through headphones with microphone attachment. Forget the keyboard.
What if computers eventually "think" like Data in The Next Generation? Suppose Data's successor is smarter than Captain Picard? Would you fear being led by a machine like the crew of Enterprize feared letting the computer pilot the ship in one episode? If you worry about a Terminator future, you need only look to Asimov's 3 Laws of Robots. No decent computer system today is without failsafes, and neither should the computer systems of the future.