Brothers, we are human beings, our emotions, feelings, thoughts, desires, urges, all belong to us. Do not entrust the beauty of your intellect into the evil hands of technology.
Ugh, this reminds me of the preaching of fundamental christians. "Technology is evil"... Are you aware of the benefits technology has given you? Are you aware of that without technology you would have a life expectancy of ~25 years (18 in the bronze age), and probably suffering from extreme dental pain? Now you can live 'till you're eighty with medications for extremely many diseases (which possibly could have killed you in the past), and you complain about the evil of technology? Even simple technology is vital for survival, what would our ancestors do without tools for cutting and killing animals? And you even complain at the progress of technology. Wouldn't you want there to be found a cure of aids - or cancer? The scientists are progressing towards these goals all the time.
Your view of the future of technology is quite pessimistic. Especially when you say that machines will take over imminently. Machines do whatever we tell them to do, and nothing else. I think scientists will take at least some precautionary rules before making a potential world-dominating, manslaughtering machine from hell. Perhaps decide what it shouldn't be offensive towards? Even artificial intelligence behaves exactly as we want it to behave. It 'thinks' of what we decide it to think. I don't think we will ever give machines the 'freedom' to potentially control us. That is science fiction.
I don't think technology is the problem here...
it's the people!
Good word, mz. Unresponsible people I might add. It is what it is used for by the common people that is potentially dangerous - not what it is made for. I of course refer to the cause of global warming and other environmental issues. Not to some pshycho man killing machine.
loudthoughts, I find your posts very interesting and informative. I agree with you, and infact - life does not have one single definition, it is now a simplification of describing 'objects' of an emergent nature to some extent. Or 'subjects', if you like.