<<< Mq is quite the dreamer, all wrapped up in his head with a strand of optic fiber sticking out the back ala "The Matrix"..... when we evolve to be able to fit in there, or at least develope a 9-pin adapter on the back of our skull's he'll be right. :)))) Until then we have hands and legs, and will get sicker and sicker and diseases never before heard of will flourish in people who don't use them. So simple that only the villiage idiot could have the realization.>>>
Mq is sort of a quirky modern day Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, minus the Jesuit Theology. Pierre was an early 20th century philosopher, scientist (paleontolgy/evolution), Jesuit Priest, and mystic.
His vision that through technology, we are all connected, and we can be thought of as a single entity - with tremendous intellectual potential. He died in 1955, but his thoughts were formulated well before computers became common place - way before Illiac (aka HAL) was imagined and put together (1952) at the University of Illinois.
Some people think Piere's vision and the Internet converge.
In some quirky way, Mq sounds optimistic and is probably a closet mystic.
It is fairly easy, once it has been pointed out to us how human evolution works - how we got from there to here. But it is probably not that easy to see how we go from here to there in the future.
You can't just extrapolate from the past. That would be like war colleges using weapons, strategies, and conditions from the last war to prepare for wars in the future - even as they might try to extrapolate how weapons may evolve.
Similarly, when you predict the future, all you see is that we've used up all our natural resources, lowered our physical capbilities, and abandoned our tried and true ethics. Quite naturally, in your forecast of the future, you see nothing but doom and gloom - unless we do some of the things you know we will very unlikely do (conserve resources, work harder, etc).
In all, I think Mq's vision (though quirky and at times appear to be cynical) is much more optimistic and far likelier to be. |
