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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4515)	6/8/2001 9:44:07 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Maybe humans won't be needed at all << ... more probable some symbiotic relationship like cells and mitochondria. There was a scifi book on the human race this side of the iron curtain building a super-duper computer. 10 minutes after they threw the switch, the monster burped up the message:"There's another one like me over there, get me the link" and the rest you can figure out yourself. dj

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4515)	6/8/2001 11:18:53 AM
From: marek_wojna	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74559

<<Maybe humans won't be needed at all and we are just a kind of zeolite molecular sieve for producing the next piece of consciousness in the earth area, just as chimps were the jig from which humans were created by the mindless random work of DNA evolution.>> Would you be so kind and explain to me what sense it make to create next piece of consciousness? Do you assume that a humane race is a mistake of nature and humans are working so hard to create a new species which will take their place in the process of self elimination? Finally - could you share with me the goals of the new superhumans which regular humans cannot even dream of and achieve? As for internet - future will show if this new toy will make us any happier.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4515)	6/8/2001 11:28:57 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

'DAK, you are thinking in human terms. The biggest point about IT is that it will want to be for IT's own sake, not as a shopping catalogue for people buying electronic systems to play gutter rap. Humans are not the only things which have a sense of self. I can only surmise from this train of thought that you expect us to be supplanted as the (dominant) sentient life form on the planet ? Then accordingly we are unwittingly and directly constructing our own demise. The Coming Financial Financial Collapse of 2001 or 2002 etc.. would pale by comparison. Was the premiss behind Terminator a prescient vision ? Maybe I'll move to Montana LOL. In the year 2525.... Zager and Evans regards Kastel