The next 100 years

[Evil Chris]

The whole "mind uploading" thing bothers me. WAY too many social and moral issues to even imagine. That is if it's even possible, which I think it is not. I can believe that the information and possibly even memories of someone might one day be uploadable into a machine from their brain neurons, but their actual sense of being, their soul? Impossible.

And Vinge's Singularity theory is outright frightening if you think of all (hell, even some of) the possibilities.

If human-kind stays it's current course, posthumanity will indeed be a very scary place. And we're only talking about 2 generations up the road. That ain't long.

[MorganGrayson]

Chris...to never touch, to never smell, to never feel the sun on your face or the rain on your skin...whatever uploads into cyber space will not be "human."

Luckily, weapons of mass destruction and a worsening weather pattern will reduce us all to cave dwellers and we can start all over again...unless we get wiped out entirely and it's the dolphin's turn.

I think I'm rooting for the dolphins.

[Evil Chris]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

Luckily, weapons of mass destruction and a worsening weather pattern will reduce us all to cave dwellers and we can start all over again...unless we get wiped out entirely and it's the dolphin's turn.

Morgan, I love your optimism.

However, mankind is too stupid to survive, and too smart to become extinct.
When the times come, it won't even be about money. It will only be about power and knowledge.