Skinow, we are already far behind on memorizing [which has traditionally been a large part of what was called "education"]. < it will be a matter of time until the rapidly progressing artificial intelligence will leave us far behind.> Memory is a very large part of intelligence. Google has it, you and I don't. Google remembers things I tell it long after I have forgotten, so it remembers more than all humans combined, especially since humans have a tendency to die of old age, if not earlier, taking their memory with them.
So we have already lost on the foundations.
Even recall is easier done via Google than accessing our private memories. A couple of seconds and Google has the answer, while we are still thinking "Oh yes, I know that. Ummm.... Hang on, yes, I think it was thingamy. I'm pretty sure that's it. No wait, it was her who said that. Wasn't that at the beach? Oh to Hell with it, just ask Google."
Development of extra-somatic intelligence isn't a bad thing for people. It's not an either-or, us against them situation. <They, the robots, may decide to outsource the baby sitting duties to some simpler, cheaper robots, and find something better to do. Like, maybe, design better and smarter robots.... :) > Humans will stay with their primate lives, mating, eating, fighting, laughing, perhaps with some genetic improvements and extensions through genetic selection and engineering, while the extra-somatic stuff will do what they do, separately. Just as New York is a whole world separate from our chimpoid origins in some African forest. They are different worlds with not much overlap, despite the almost identical dna and primate physiological needs. Cyberspace has no physiological overlap with primates so can go off on It's own. It's not a war of the worlds situation.
Unfortunately, nature seems to involve some very harsh evolutionary processes involving destruction of those less fitted for Hobbesian survival, so competing Cyberspace systems might very well overlap into skooshing plenty of people in the same way that competing male elephants will trample any mice unlucky enough to be in the way.
There should be plenty of action in the 21st century, as in all other centuries. .
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