9th April 2009, 12:35 AM
I found some his stuff online a while back, it mostly gives me nightmares.
in the next 5 years we'll see computers faster than the human brain at walmart for sale. I think we'll also see a revolution in storage that moves us in to the gigs per second as standard, with teras not far beyond. I think within our lifetimes we'll probably be wiped out by super intelligent robots.
On one hand, I dont think it will ever be possible. Too many moral complications. But a bio-organic computer that can interact directly with our minds will get here one way or the other, the rest will be on culture and you can bet porn will be a driving force. It will open up a limitless problem and I can totally see it becoming illegal and controlled, then explode in infinite directions. There's a possibility, for example, that in our lifetimes we can link two consciousness's together not unlike the first intranet between schools. From there, you could possibly join a world wide web that exists solely in the mind. Nightmare fuel.... intangibly holistic nightmare fuel.
On one hand, it will start like the brain eating experiments whre a rat runs a maze until he knows it completely, then have his brain fed to another rat to see if by digesting the brain he can acquire the knowledge the previous rat had. Strangely enough it does work. Imagine the experiments now - A man has a needle pierce his finger but a woman in a different state feels it. A person connected and capable of anything, knows everything in recorded science, art, history, mathematics. I mean Jesus Christ, imagine the backlash. Making our children 'impure' by the thoughts of others, or making it illegal for them to connect so they try even harder to get on it. 7 year olds with more knowledge than a college professor and capable of recalling any other person's experiences. It will start so simple and innocent and it will snowball out of control.
On the other hand... imagine just 30 years from now and replacing, recalling and erasing memories is a real part of our lives, minus the trip to Mars (probably). Access in education going from what you can read in a few years time, to what can be implanted in seconds. Our kids could buy an instrument and receive lessons in to their mind. Playing Chopin the same day they touched a piano for the first time. And not a single person is dressed exclusively in pleather or taking any pills.
Imagine a 16 year old who does in fact know everything. When I try to imagine that society I get visions of prosperity and hell on earth. But still, its cultural. Messing and interacting with brainwaves externally? Through devices? "Altering our minds" and 'expanding our consciousness"? What would it do to someone's personality? Would you, once you connect to it, effectively 'die', and be replaced with a new and different personality and identity? We do that through life, but this would be in the course of a few minutes, not years and not just your life but everyone in the hive.
When the first successful attempts become known, there will be a moral backlash that could sink it before it ever reaches its potential.
It would destroy God and religion, separating the people from actual faith and the followers just looking for answers... who will find them all. It has the ability to become a huge mirror for us all to actually see ourselves for once. I wouldn't doubt the possibility of mass suicides at all, wars will be raged as dictators who wont even educate their own people of the world outside their own connect and explore data, experiences and emotion of a collective hive mind. I want so badly to be there to see the look on the faces of racists and womanizers as they realize what they are. The pedophiles, the drug abusers and alcoholics all staring deep in to the ocean of answers where we each have the education of an experienced psychologist, every vein of therapist, psychoanalyst and more and we can compare our findings with nutrition, exercise and physical health all in our heads within seconds. While simultaneously exploring the emotional constructs of every person connected to it.
It's too much for me to fathom. But the potential for greatness, tangible hope? :P I bet when it does start, it can be a subject or idea a time. So doctors will be great doctors but suck at concert flute like they always did, geneticists will be the best can be but have no idea how to fix a car. It's probably a few hundred years away before we can actually share consciousness on a large scale with a world wide mind. But it will start with interacting directly with the brains and that's within our lifetimes imo.
in the next 5 years we'll see computers faster than the human brain at walmart for sale. I think we'll also see a revolution in storage that moves us in to the gigs per second as standard, with teras not far beyond. I think within our lifetimes we'll probably be wiped out by super intelligent robots.
On one hand, I dont think it will ever be possible. Too many moral complications. But a bio-organic computer that can interact directly with our minds will get here one way or the other, the rest will be on culture and you can bet porn will be a driving force. It will open up a limitless problem and I can totally see it becoming illegal and controlled, then explode in infinite directions. There's a possibility, for example, that in our lifetimes we can link two consciousness's together not unlike the first intranet between schools. From there, you could possibly join a world wide web that exists solely in the mind. Nightmare fuel.... intangibly holistic nightmare fuel.
On one hand, it will start like the brain eating experiments whre a rat runs a maze until he knows it completely, then have his brain fed to another rat to see if by digesting the brain he can acquire the knowledge the previous rat had. Strangely enough it does work. Imagine the experiments now - A man has a needle pierce his finger but a woman in a different state feels it. A person connected and capable of anything, knows everything in recorded science, art, history, mathematics. I mean Jesus Christ, imagine the backlash. Making our children 'impure' by the thoughts of others, or making it illegal for them to connect so they try even harder to get on it. 7 year olds with more knowledge than a college professor and capable of recalling any other person's experiences. It will start so simple and innocent and it will snowball out of control.
On the other hand... imagine just 30 years from now and replacing, recalling and erasing memories is a real part of our lives, minus the trip to Mars (probably). Access in education going from what you can read in a few years time, to what can be implanted in seconds. Our kids could buy an instrument and receive lessons in to their mind. Playing Chopin the same day they touched a piano for the first time. And not a single person is dressed exclusively in pleather or taking any pills.
Imagine a 16 year old who does in fact know everything. When I try to imagine that society I get visions of prosperity and hell on earth. But still, its cultural. Messing and interacting with brainwaves externally? Through devices? "Altering our minds" and 'expanding our consciousness"? What would it do to someone's personality? Would you, once you connect to it, effectively 'die', and be replaced with a new and different personality and identity? We do that through life, but this would be in the course of a few minutes, not years and not just your life but everyone in the hive.
When the first successful attempts become known, there will be a moral backlash that could sink it before it ever reaches its potential.
It would destroy God and religion, separating the people from actual faith and the followers just looking for answers... who will find them all. It has the ability to become a huge mirror for us all to actually see ourselves for once. I wouldn't doubt the possibility of mass suicides at all, wars will be raged as dictators who wont even educate their own people of the world outside their own connect and explore data, experiences and emotion of a collective hive mind. I want so badly to be there to see the look on the faces of racists and womanizers as they realize what they are. The pedophiles, the drug abusers and alcoholics all staring deep in to the ocean of answers where we each have the education of an experienced psychologist, every vein of therapist, psychoanalyst and more and we can compare our findings with nutrition, exercise and physical health all in our heads within seconds. While simultaneously exploring the emotional constructs of every person connected to it.
It's too much for me to fathom. But the potential for greatness, tangible hope? :P I bet when it does start, it can be a subject or idea a time. So doctors will be great doctors but suck at concert flute like they always did, geneticists will be the best can be but have no idea how to fix a car. It's probably a few hundred years away before we can actually share consciousness on a large scale with a world wide mind. But it will start with interacting directly with the brains and that's within our lifetimes imo.