Hahahha you mean hey where did you get that chick skin and personality for your robot?
I don't know what to think of the future of all this really - the new tech stuff that comes out now and then amazes me (i love to be amazed:)
I also love to speculate about the future. It seems to me that combined technologies will bring great medical benefits. For example to diabetes patients - when little chips with some DNA attached can generate insulin on demand and use the bloodstream to monitor sugar levels, get components for construction and sugar for its energy. These things are all in embryonic development stages now but it'll happen.
I just wonder.. maybe there is something to the movie the matrix... most of us perhaps will happily live in a virtual world that is as real as this one and based totally on sensual pleasure - maybe we have already done so in the past and we live in that construct now - spirits incarnate:)
I felt I had to post this no matter I am a little late with it - plenty of opportunity to express this in future posts though, and thans very much for the praise & friendliness.
Wow, all this commotion over what is basically a modified DCC/IRC client (napster) with database connectivity, it even made the Dutch evening news and the anchor barely knew how to pronounce napster.
We're all nerds and realize that in give or take 30 years we might never have to get out of bed anymore unless we really want to because we're totally wired up to everything and everyone else. And yet we insist on making a big issue out of this MP3 thing and we realize there are some people in the "establishment" (in this case represented by the RIAA and the legal system) who do not seem to comprehend what is happening.. But think about it, even the greatest social theory can never achieve the kind of total social revolution technology is forcing upon us, right at this very moment.
Put on your mental calculator and use as inputs: developments in broadband technology (you gotta agree those optical network switches are totally awesome); CPU speed, speech recongition, 3d rendering technology, robot manufacturing intelligence, brain wave measurement tech, human-computer interface (cyborg) tech, nanotech... err add in gen & biotech. But don't filter it through the "wow awesome" or "wow scary" filter but through the ole "social consequence" filter, meaning what is going to happen to law, to politics, to the economy, to all those institutions managed by people who have little or no clue at all about what is hitting them.
I think you will agree that bar a major global catastrophe that sets it all back, technology will be introduced within our bodies and in some way will interface much more directly with our senses, or even and eventually bypassing our senses; will be able to talk to us electronically and chemically through our neurons and synapses. "today, I found you browsing through my left kidney".
I feel it so strongly, things are going to change dramatically, and here we are with political and legal and social institutions that are going to be swept away and replaced by ones that are in sync with the demands of us as... well... errr... cybernetic.... creatures. I don't think these institutions have it in them to adapt rapidly enough, and I really wish they could, because really I am conservative and like the understanding in evolution much more than the chaos of revolution. Perhaps for all us "nerds" it is more an evolution because we are involved with it and can piece it together, but what about the people who have no clue?
What kind of a world is being carved out for us? It's really our very own to make, because we are the agents of technology.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know what to think of the future of all this really - the new tech stuff that comes out now and then amazes me (i love to be amazed :)
I also love to speculate about the future. It seems to me that combined technologies will bring great medical benefits. For example to diabetes patients - when little chips with some DNA attached can generate insulin on demand and use the bloodstream to monitor sugar levels, get components for construction and sugar for its energy. These things are all in embryonic development stages now but it'll happen.
I just wonder.. maybe there is something to the movie the matrix ... most of us perhaps will happily live in a virtual world that is as real as this one and based totally on sensual pleasure - maybe we have already done so in the past and we live in that construct now - spirits incarnate :)
I felt I had to post this no matter I am a little late with it - plenty of opportunity to express this in future posts though, and thans very much for the praise & friendliness.
We're all nerds and realize that in give or take 30 years we might never have to get out of bed anymore unless we really want to because we're totally wired up to everything and everyone else. And yet we insist on making a big issue out of this MP3 thing and we realize there are some people in the "establishment" (in this case represented by the RIAA and the legal system) who do not seem to comprehend what is happening.. But think about it, even the greatest social theory can never achieve the kind of total social revolution technology is forcing upon us, right at this very moment.
Put on your mental calculator and use as inputs: developments in broadband technology (you gotta agree those optical network switches are totally awesome); CPU speed, speech recongition, 3d rendering technology, robot manufacturing intelligence, brain wave measurement tech, human-computer interface (cyborg) tech, nanotech... err add in gen & biotech. But don't filter it through the "wow awesome" or "wow scary" filter but through the ole "social consequence" filter, meaning what is going to happen to law, to politics, to the economy, to all those institutions managed by people who have little or no clue at all about what is hitting them.
I think you will agree that bar a major global catastrophe that sets it all back, technology will be introduced within our bodies and in some way will interface much more directly with our senses, or even and eventually bypassing our senses; will be able to talk to us electronically and chemically through our neurons and synapses. "today, I found you browsing through my left kidney".
I feel it so strongly, things are going to change dramatically, and here we are with political and legal and social institutions that are going to be swept away and replaced by ones that are in sync with the demands of us as ... well ... errr ... cybernetic .... creatures. I don't think these institutions have it in them to adapt rapidly enough, and I really wish they could, because really I am conservative and like the understanding in evolution much more than the chaos of revolution. Perhaps for all us "nerds" it is more an evolution because we are involved with it and can piece it together, but what about the people who have no clue?
What kind of a world is being carved out for us? It's really our very own to make, because we are the agents of technology.
I'd very much appreciate your comments.