Could we stop ourselves from becoming human instead of staying monkees? Nope. Technology is the same thing. We cannot really stop it even if we wanted to. The more you forbid something, the more people want to know about it. The real problem here is that when you become "PERFECT" and that you can't catch disease, have abnormalities and live forever, where is the challenge of life? Life become so easy for you that you get bored like hell. Why do you think the suicidal rate is so high these days when it was almost nil 50 years ago? People are bored. 50 years ago or more, people worked so much that they didn't had the time to think about anything else and it gave them a continuing challenge, but today you can sit on your butt, claim welfare and survive that easily. Not much life threatening situation anymore and people feel less alive. I don't say we should works harder, but live better! What we do in our lives isn't really life important. Always a distraction, but not really fulfilling inside of us. So all in all, we can become better geneticaly, but spiritualy, nothing will have changed at all even with better body. We aren't evolving the right way so very soon we'll hit a wall that might smash us more than we believe. That we'll have to see...
Why using an XBOX instead of a PC? 1) First of all, you wanna play a game and not spend any time configuring it. 2) Internet access will be much smoother too and you won't need a 4 year network degre to configure it. 3) Since it is dedicated hardware, the game shouldn't crash and the console will not either since there is a very limited OS in there and it's burned in hardware, not loaded into memory. 4) The game console should not cost 2000$ or more like a computer. There isn't any price yet, but if we look at the PSX2 from Sony who do about the same job, it's around 400-500$, maybe less(But since it's coming from Micro$oft, you can bet it'll be more;-). The BIG question here that no one seems to ask is: Since Ms will get to build the console, why not build computer components too? There isn't much difference between the 2 and why not building a computer who is 100% micro$oft(Hardware and Software)? If that happen, then truly hell will have fallen on earth for many users(But it will be paradise for Teks since we'll have jobs forever!)
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Could we stop ourselves from becoming human instead of staying monkees? Nope. Technology is the same thing. We cannot really stop it even if we wanted to. The more you forbid something, the more people want to know about it. The real problem here is that when you become "PERFECT" and that you can't catch disease, have abnormalities and live forever, where is the challenge of life? Life become so easy for you that you get bored like hell. Why do you think the suicidal rate is so high these days when it was almost nil 50 years ago? People are bored. 50 years ago or more, people worked so much that they didn't had the time to think about anything else and it gave them a continuing challenge, but today you can sit on your butt, claim welfare and survive that easily. Not much life threatening situation anymore and people feel less alive. I don't say we should works harder, but live better! What we do in our lives isn't really life important. Always a distraction, but not really fulfilling inside of us. So all in all, we can become better geneticaly, but spiritualy, nothing will have changed at all even with better body. We aren't evolving the right way so very soon we'll hit a wall that might smash us more than we believe. That we'll have to see...
Why using an XBOX instead of a PC? 1) First of all, you wanna play a game and not spend any time configuring it. 2) Internet access will be much smoother too and you won't need a 4 year network degre to configure it. 3) Since it is dedicated hardware, the game shouldn't crash and the console will not either since there is a very limited OS in there and it's burned in hardware, not loaded into memory. 4) The game console should not cost 2000$ or more like a computer. There isn't any price yet, but if we look at the PSX2 from Sony who do about the same job, it's around 400-500$, maybe less(But since it's coming from Micro$oft, you can bet it'll be more ;-). The BIG question here that no one seems to ask is: Since Ms will get to build the console, why not build computer components too? There isn't much difference between the 2 and why not building a computer who is 100% micro$oft(Hardware and Software)? If that happen, then truly hell will have fallen on earth for many users(But it will be paradise for Teks since we'll have jobs forever!)