Heaven and Earth, by Scott Kim (google him for web site), is one of the most incredible puzzle games ever made. It features hundreds of delightful single-screen puzzles based on subtle visual illusions and interface tricks. No boring search-the-dungeon-for-the-key or find-the-secret-combination puzzles. Did anyone else find this game as wonderful as I did?
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both BUD -AND- the copyright holders of the Superfriends characters could have sued the pants off the creators.. but they didn't. Why? Because it, like Park Wars, was done in good fun. No money was changing hands here..
Don't forget that companies also benefit tremendously from spoofs of their products and commercials. Enough spoofs can turn a simple commercial into a cultural icon, as BUD recognized with its Wazzup line.
Humans would quickly become redundant in such a scenario, insofar as they would no longer have anything to contribute to the progress of our culture. The machines would inherit the Earth.
You view the future as falling into one of two possibilities:
1. Humans stay in control
2. Machines inherit the earth
But you assume that in the future the division between humans and machines will be clear. There is a third possibility.
3. Humans and machines will become one.
This is already happening from both directions. Machines are becoming more human-like (AI research); and humans are becoming machine-enhanced (artificial limbs, artificial ears, etc).
The last frontier is the intersection of mind and brain. Once this is understood, our physical parts will become changeable, and our minds will become transferable. The distinctions on which so much fear-mongering science fiction is based ("machines will destroy us!!") will be lost. 'We' and 'They' will be one and the same.
Perception and reasoning are about organization, not raw power. Undoubtedly, computers in the future will be able to do more things to more bits of data in less time than a mouse brain. That is, they will have more raw power. But the question is whether computer will be able to do the same things that a mouse brain does. With sophisticated analysis, there is no reason this should be impossible...
In English, word order is much more important than Japanese, which uses case markers like 'wa' and 'o' to identify the roles of words. So you could verbalize "Mary loves John" as "Mary-wa loves John-o" or "John-o Mary-wa loves" etc, and be understood.
Most computer languages use word order in functions. So f(x,y,z) means something different from f(y,z,x). But you could imagine someone inventing notation like (x:arg1, f:funcName, z:arg3, y:arg2) in which markers identify the roles of variables rather than their position in the sentence.
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Heaven and Earth, by Scott Kim (google him for web site), is one of the most incredible puzzle games ever made. It features hundreds of delightful single-screen puzzles based on subtle visual illusions and interface tricks. No boring search-the-dungeon-for-the-key or find-the-secret-combination puzzles. Did anyone else find this game as wonderful as I did?
Don't forget that companies also benefit tremendously from spoofs of their products and commercials. Enough spoofs can turn a simple commercial into a cultural icon, as BUD recognized with its Wazzup line.
You view the future as falling into one of two possibilities:
1. Humans stay in control
2. Machines inherit the earth
But you assume that in the future the division between humans and machines will be clear. There is a third possibility.
3. Humans and machines will become one.
This is already happening from both directions. Machines are becoming more human-like (AI research); and humans are becoming machine-enhanced (artificial limbs, artificial ears, etc).
The last frontier is the intersection of mind and brain. Once this is understood, our physical parts will become changeable, and our minds will become transferable. The distinctions on which so much fear-mongering science fiction is based ("machines will destroy us!!") will be lost. 'We' and 'They' will be one and the same.
Perception and reasoning are about organization, not raw power. Undoubtedly, computers in the future will be able to do more things to more bits of data in less time than a mouse brain. That is, they will have more raw power. But the question is whether computer will be able to do the same things that a mouse brain does. With sophisticated analysis, there is no reason this should be impossible...
In English, word order is much more important than Japanese, which uses case markers like 'wa' and 'o' to identify the roles of words. So you could verbalize "Mary loves John" as "Mary-wa loves John-o" or "John-o Mary-wa loves" etc, and be understood.
Most computer languages use word order in functions. So f(x,y,z) means something different from f(y,z,x). But you could imagine someone inventing notation like (x:arg1, f:funcName, z:arg3, y:arg2) in which markers identify the roles of variables rather than their position in the sentence.