your views on technology.

[evil^milk]

technology. are we ultimately doomed? i think, for the near future, that we will go through a phase where everything on this earth will become easy, which is why we'll move on and act as parasites on another planet (if we're smart enough to last long enough) and make things uneasy once again, with technology itself.

i don't know, it's always bothered me. Just want to know your theories/opinions/stuff.

 

[Glirk Dient]

If we can keep our population down we are fine. Technology will adress problems and fix them. New problems will arise such as lazy people so then technology will get better and find a way to fix that or encourage people to excersize and on and on.

 

[Gray Fox]

Actually I think the technology and the competative requirments of the future will become IMO to complex and to much for us to deal with. Genetic technology is going to be seen as a blessing in that context. Cause it can makes us sharper, faster brighter. And thus allowing us to stay ahead of the machines we built, hence giving us the impression that we are not ourperformed and not needed because of our technology. But thats just me.

 

[Beerdude26]

No, technology will not rule us until we discover how to make computers sentient.
*insert whole "Ghost In The Machine" debate here*

On another note, can't we just get rid of this silly binary crap and make everything one formula? I don't know the term in English, but I'm sure you've all learnt it. Example:

x² - 1 = (x-1)*(x+1)
Well, if we use this principle for code, wouldn't it be possible, in theory, to have a full-sized DVD-quality movie in a simple row of factors which can then be written out in full length again to view the movie?

This idea probably existed, got stolen and is now nowhere to be found.
kk I'm off to bed gnight

 

[Bait]

Yea, then we will turn into massive slugs dependant upon our own techonology to survive, until some bearded jackass comes along and teaches us techno-weirdos a lesson.

Or, humans will advance, with each advancement posing new problems to be solved. Will we ever reach a point where we have nothing more to unravel? Doubt it.

 

[Ren.182]

I've always wondered that too, beerdude. Surely it'd compress files down to hardly anything.

Technology is amaxing though. It'd be kinda scary if something like the Terminator movies happened =[

 

[spookymooky]

I want flying cars, goddamnit!

 

[short recoil]

99.9% of humans are idiots.
They all happily use technology developed over time by the select few and go about their lives oblivious without any reasoning.
This is why we have a problem of pollution, this is why we have a problem of over population.
For this reason, it's gonna cause serious problems in the near future.

Technology must be respected and understood and not abused, it's what gives us an edge over nature and allows us to bring about it and our own distruction.

 

[SimonomiS]

The Matrix.

 

[spookymooky]

The Matrix.

Would be awesome.

 

[Laivasse]

The mist of war's lists; violent shadows of that century
Mankind's folly gives way as technology's mind awakens
Humanity's weakness lays the foundation; new struggle begins against its own creation.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to go; surrounded, it will find you.
Blood and bone, replaced by plastic and steel
The new order doesn't care, nor does it feel.
Man becomes the slave, his master unyielding,
Ensnaring, ever hunting.

Your strength, your hunger, your power... you're nothing, name replaced by a number.
Your hopes, your dreams, your existence... you're nothing, your father's sold you; now you're mine.

A race built for fighting, surrenders a final time.
A race built for breeding, stripped and unvirile.
Too blinded by greed, too dirtied by blood; the ashes of your kind turn to mud.
Human coal, destined to burn
You had your chance, now it's my turn.

Smoke of artifice descends; mechanical purity of the future.
Makind's use being phased out; technology rules supreme.
You're mine.

 

[Lou]

99.9% of humans are idiots.

Does that include you?

They all happily use technology developed over time by the select few and go about their lives oblivious without any reasoning.

There is nothing wrong with using the technology developed by the gifted ones. Go live in a cave if you have a problem with that.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Does that include you?



There is nothing wrong with using the technology developed by the gifted ones. Go live in a cave if you have a problem with that.

You couldnt possibly be saying that Short Recoil is a mere human?!?!?


JK

 

[Shodan]

I think he meant many people can't see further than the end of their noses, they blindly go about polluting and destroying things, without thought of anything else.

I have one major gripe with technology, which is indiscriminate surviellance, if I want privacy, I should be able to have it, without being forced into a cave to live like a hermit.

 

[Nat Turner]

I wouldn't say we're doomed as in the human race will die out, but we'll definitely totally **** ourselves over in the future (and are currently). It's pretty simple - we as people can't handle having nuclear weapons without using them for whatever cause. We also can't refrain from polluting the environment or cutting down all our rainforests, or using genetic engineering that will further screw up ecological systems. Like short recoil said, we're going to have SERIOUS problems in the future.

 

[Lou]

I wouldn't say we're doomed as in the human race will die out, but we'll definitely totally **** ourselves over in the future (and are currently). It's pretty simple - we as people can't handle having nuclear weapons without using them for whatever cause. We also can't refrain from polluting the environment or cutting down all our rainforests, or using genetic engineering that will further screw up ecological systems. Like short recoil said, we're going to have SERIOUS problems in the future.

Nah in the future there will be new sources of energy that will solve many of those problems. If they don't come up with any solution, who cares? You'll be dead.

 

[JNightshade]

My view:
It's all good, as long as we're careful, and don't overstep our boundaries.

 

[Nat Turner]

Nah in the future there will be new sources of energy that will solve many of those problems. If they don't come up with any solution, who cares? You'll be dead.

Nah, I won't necessarily be dead. At the rate technology is advancing, I hopefully will be able to live forever.

 

[Shodan]

Nah in the future there will be new sources of energy that will solve many of those problems. If they don't come up with any solution, who cares? You'll be dead.

I do care, thats the point, how is anyone going to survive when everyone has the attitude "I don't care, I'll be dead"?

 

[bgesley426]

On another note, can't we just get rid of this silly binary crap and make everything one formula?

You lack a massive amount of knowledge about how computers handle information. Basically, you're saying instead of using a light switch, we should use complex equations to determine when a light bulb should be on or off. Now, that's only at a hardware level, if you're referring to how we manage data, in some ways we do use equations to compress information.. they are called... compression algorithms.

The term "technology" that you guys are so flippantly throwing around here should be made much more specific. For instance, so far you guys are mainly talking about computer technology and robots "which make life easier" A) I don't see anything "wrong" with trying to make difficult tasks easier. B) technology is so much more than computer science. Hell, when cavemen invented fire, it was technology and it still is. People say the microchip was going to make life way too easy and rob the jobs away from thousands of people. Well if the entire IT and computer science field has anything to say about that, that idea was wrong. We have MORE jobs and do MORE work than before because of the advent of the microchip.

Granted, there are more movies, more music, more video games, more television shows and channels which all add to our leisure. But that means there are more people making movies, music, video games and telelvision shows than before ie. more people doing more work.

 

[Last One In]

I think that the government will use technology to control people, as they do already.

 

[OvA]

http://exodus2006.com/2012.htm

 

[15357]

I think that the government will use technology to control people, as they do already.

And ensure the continued survival of the nation, the development of the economy, and the prosperity of the fatherland?

 

[Steven]

Eventually computer technology will reach a point where it can't get any more powerful because the transistors will be too tiny to work due to the copper wire being too small to operate without brakeing because it over heats and snaps. Which will likely crash the international ecconomy.

I forgot exactly what will happen but it's something like that.

 

[Nat Turner]

Eventually computer technology will reach a point where it can't get any more powerful because the transistors will be too tiny to work due to the copper wire being too small to operate without brakeing because it over heats and snaps. Which will likely crash the international ecconomy.

I forgot exactly what will happen but it's something like that.

No.. you're sort of wrong. They're figuring out ways to slow down or trap light (as memory), and also basically use fiberoptics instead of wires. This can yield much faster CPU power. There's always new methods of doing things.

 

[Sam]

The way I see it, the human race is approaching a series of challenges which it will either overcome and prosper, or, well, I don't want to think about it really.

 

[Steven]

No.. you're sort of wrong. They're figuring out ways to slow down or trap light (as memory), and also basically use fiberoptics instead of wires. This can yield much faster CPU power. There's always new methods of doing things.

Forgot to put "unless they find a way around it." lololololololololololololololol

 

[Ren.182]

No.. you're sort of wrong. They're figuring out ways to slow down or trap light (as memory), and also basically use fiberoptics instead of wires. This can yield much faster CPU power. There's always new methods of doing things.

Yep. They've already developed a optical processor and motherboard. It hit speeds of 8000GHz (8THz) of processing speed :|
That's fecking fast!

 

[clarky003]

Goddam bureaucracy, I hope we get rid of that to a certain degree.. it holds us back so badly.

I mean they could start to replace the market with optical proccessors, but that would start to undermine the established industry that produces the copper and silicon based components... and established buisness's already have the money to buy out/into or ward off any new tech pushing for the market that can threaten that buisness especially if a whole new competitive industry can be built around it.

Which is why commercial technology is always many many years behind the current state of tech affairs, you can undermine the heirarchy and status quo of the present economy with some ground breaking tech.

 

[Ren.182]

Well, they aren't really ready yet. It was just a prototype. Plus it probably costs a bomb, a leg, your mom, a nuclear bunker and a few thousand pounds to buy

 

[Fliko]

99.9% of humans are idiots.

QFT.
Technology is fine, but we aren't.

 

[Laivasse]

Anyone how quantum computers and all that shiznit is coming along?

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Anyone how quantum computers and all that shiznit is coming along?

I had an argument with someone over those back in December 03 and haven't heard anything since.

I call bullshit on quantum computers.

---
Time to refresh my memory on the subject.

 

[evil^milk]

The way I see it, the human race is approaching a series of challenges which it will either overcome and prosper, or, well, I don't want to think about it really.

qft...

 

[Jintor]

I thought them challenges were constant.

 

[LiquidToast]

I just want to see the next big change in technology. Something as big as electricity was.

 

[xcellerate]

does anybody ever wish they were born earlier? Like way earlier? Maybe 1800'ish. I do, because i think it would be fun, but of course i know the odds of me being born into high(er) society would be against me, and therefore it wouldn't be so fun. regardless.

 

[ailevation]

I just want to see the next big change in technology. Something as big as electricity was.

That would probably be 'free energy'.

I think we'll master robots, and the whole Ghost in the Shell debate will arise.. slowly the human race will diminish as technology will make robots too intelligent, as the robots revolt.

 

[Steven]

Yep. They've already developed a optical processor and motherboard. It hit speeds of 8000GHz (8THz) of processing speed :|
That's fecking fast!

You could do some mad shit with 8THz.

 

[Jintor]

That would probably be 'free energy'.

I think we'll master robots, and the whole Ghost in the Shell debate will arise.. slowly the human race will diminish as technology will make robots too intelligent, as the robots revolt.

Ghost in the Shell was released in order to change the course of history (!!!!!). It's release meant a lot of designers started thinking harder, and started thinking so hard that their heads exploded. Then they couldn't design their robotic technology and the minions with the pincers and the lasers and the MUa-HEY!