we-magazine.net— 1. The Pragmatic Web, 2. Global Intelligence, 3. Extended Reality, 4. The Human Grid, 5. Smart Objects and more. Sounds like a good future to me.
Aug 25, 2008View in Crawl 4
What about taking number two a step further? If we will ever be able connect to machines in a cyborg fashion, won't we also be able to connect our brains to this super-intelligence? In effect, melding our minds with the super-intelligence into one. We can become that super-intelligence, it doesn't have to be a separate entity. Similar to what cloud computing is to the individual computer.
the "pragmatic web" is interesting, but we are having enough trouble building a "semantic web" - until we get full on NLP (and, to be honest, AI) it's just a pipe-dream of computational linguisticians
sorry. wrong. This article is assuming everyone becomes peace-loving hippie douchebags. Remember we are only a quarter of a million years away from wiping out the neanderthal. Our primitive mammalian brains will engage in warfare for a long-ass time to come, especially with many leaders grinding our lives underfoot with no end in sight. A much more believable future is one where humans are downtrodden. A far-off look at the planet in completely unpredictable, as there are far too many variables to accurately assume levels of technology will continue to rise (see: nuclear weapons, george w. bush).Cyborgs? Are you serious? Humans will eventually integrate themselves into software, that is ineviable. But saying the human psyche will be more comfortable in a humanoid form is to say the human psyche is incapable of adaptation and uwanting any change. The minds that seek drugs for alternate perspectives and other realms of thought will definitely accept a hard disk on a database, somewhere in China. :)And even that is assuming we can continue to increase technological expertise; the governments of tomorrow will continue to let information trickle down to consumers at a slow pace, just as today. With quantum computers just on the horizon, this changes things quite a bit. Computing will change considerably, but going further: What about the creation of inevitable AI and its impact on religion? What do we face in future wars and warfare?When will we contact other sentient beings that can actually communcate with us?What if we uncover a current government's secrets?The future cannot be answered by answers, but questions instead.
Yes, Yawes, which is precisely why the power is put in the hands of every citizen/worker equally. So that nobody really has much of it and it won't corrupt anyone.Once production levels and efficiency are high enough and/or there is a global AI, that will easily be possible without significant government inefficiencies, wars, etc.
sloiAug 26, 2008
Global intelligence? We have trouble finding individual intelligence. Start small...
yawehsdeadAug 26, 2008
What about taking number two a step further? If we will ever be able connect to machines in a cyborg fashion, won't we also be able to connect our brains to this super-intelligence? In effect, melding our minds with the super-intelligence into one. We can become that super-intelligence, it doesn't have to be a separate entity. Similar to what cloud computing is to the individual computer.
rowjimmyAug 26, 2008
the "pragmatic web" is interesting, but we are having enough trouble building a "semantic web" - until we get full on NLP (and, to be honest, AI) it's just a pipe-dream of computational linguisticians
Closed AccountAug 26, 2008
sorry. wrong. This article is assuming everyone becomes peace-loving hippie douchebags. Remember we are only a quarter of a million years away from wiping out the neanderthal. Our primitive mammalian brains will engage in warfare for a long-ass time to come, especially with many leaders grinding our lives underfoot with no end in sight. A much more believable future is one where humans are downtrodden. A far-off look at the planet in completely unpredictable, as there are far too many variables to accurately assume levels of technology will continue to rise (see: nuclear weapons, george w. bush).Cyborgs? Are you serious? Humans will eventually integrate themselves into software, that is ineviable. But saying the human psyche will be more comfortable in a humanoid form is to say the human psyche is incapable of adaptation and uwanting any change. The minds that seek drugs for alternate perspectives and other realms of thought will definitely accept a hard disk on a database, somewhere in China. :)And even that is assuming we can continue to increase technological expertise; the governments of tomorrow will continue to let information trickle down to consumers at a slow pace, just as today. With quantum computers just on the horizon, this changes things quite a bit. Computing will change considerably, but going further: What about the creation of inevitable AI and its impact on religion? What do we face in future wars and warfare?When will we contact other sentient beings that can actually communcate with us?What if we uncover a current government's secrets?The future cannot be answered by answers, but questions instead.
smurfsahoyAug 26, 2008
Yes, Yawes, which is precisely why the power is put in the hands of every citizen/worker equally. So that nobody really has much of it and it won't corrupt anyone.Once production levels and efficiency are high enough and/or there is a global AI, that will easily be possible without significant government inefficiencies, wars, etc.
webworkerAug 27, 2008
It's hard to take someone seriously when they rely on a spellchecker to be their only proofreading.
krazeelSep 5, 2008
Self-cooking popcorn