What will be the ultimate result of modern instantaneous and impersonal media and technology?
yeah, i do miss going to the arcade and watching geniuses go at it at Killer Instinct and SFII...i think the most profound technological 'leap' in my lifetime has been the cloning thing...i think they say they can clone people now? and not just that, but dna can be sequenced so that you can actually pick and choose what characteristics you want in the cloned 'kid'...i find this kind of disturbing and euphoric at the same time. Euphoric, because what if cloning got so standardized and cheap that you could clone yourself a personal Jessica Alba or something. Dont say you wouldnt at least contemplate buying one. And disturbing because thoughts like the one i just founded regarding Jessica Alba might one day be real. We'll have a mass market of human beings...i mean, we kinda have that now with the whole human trafficking and sex slave thing, and i think its pretty much agreed that that is a horrible thing...so what will the effects be when people are made into another mass produced commodity??? Im not sure that there are any models that would even come close to predicting how that occurrence would change everything.
What will be the ultimate result of modern instantaneous and impersonal media and technology?
The ultimate result is the merger of man and machine to the point that eventually man will be all machine. There will be no man eventually. It is called evolution. Evolution has now taken on a conscious form and we are driving it through the production of new technology. Eventually the machine will think as we do, and surpass us. Our brain is nothing more than an organic computer with electrical impulses, just like a machine. This should not necessarily be seen as something horrible. We are insuring the continuation of autonomous life through the creation of beings who will be far better suited to cope with the inevitable harshness of the future environment.
I agree it's awesome but it seems people have shorter and shorter attention spans and shorter and shorter tempers... for a short answer. We want everything ..yesterday!
...one will be encapsulated within a hi tech module 24/7 and be happy...
if you said %26quot;brilliant media%26quot; you would want to know how %26quot;brilliant' it was gonna be. By saying %26quot;impersonal%26quot; you are telling me you have decided it is depersonalizing society, so you have already given yourself your answer.
G The effect is already here. The morons, of all educational classes, just walk blithely along, aware of only the little screen and sounds. Sameness is upon us more than it ever was. The uniqueness is disappearing.
