I spend hours pottering on my laptop. I have a wireless network card and even surf the net in the bathroom. I used to get overwhelmed and headachy by the shere mass of information but nowadays I find it liberating. The internet seems to provide a type of freedom / lifestyle: to exist in a completely virtual world away from the harsh realities of the physical, to share and absorb knowledge and the ideal way for shy ‘creative’ types to connect with others ie: I hate using the phone. Though, I sometimes wonder if my graphic design tutor was right when he suggested that with the convienience of technology and the net to communicate, all our bodily limbs will eventually become useless and retract into our bodies and we’ll be left with nothing but a brain enclosed in a giant pink blob. Is this how human beings will evolve in the future, do you think?
Epiphany {new age/spirituality}
“”with the convienience of technology and the net to communicate, all our bodily limbs will eventually become useless and retract into our bodies and we’ll be left with nothing but a brain enclosed in a giant pink blob”
Sounds great to me. Think of the money I’d save on clothes and hairdressing.
By the way, with all our limbs gone what did your tutor reckon we’d use to drive the keyboard and the mouse? I can guess what he might have had in mind for the fellas, but for the girls???? Hmmmmmmmmmmm.”
Susan St.Maur
http://www.suzanstmaur.com/
I guess it depends on how technology adapts as to which parts of our bodies become redundant ie: we could all end up using voice-activated machines or may even eventually provide instructions telepathically perhaps? Just a thought.
“We should get fins and swin the ocean.”
Mario Marcolin
http://www.skrif.net
hmm i doubt we’ll even be pink blobs. Most likely, once we get artificial intelligence going, sooner or later it will become smarter than us. However, that does not mean a machines-take-over-the-world senario. Instead, we’ll coexist peacefully since machines will be too smart to start a conflict with us (they’ll look at us like children). Once with enough knowledge about the human brain we’ll be able to figure out the exact neural structure and synaptic sequence that makes an individual an individual. Then with this knowledge we’ll transfer our consciousness into the information network where we’ll be able to infinitely expand our intelligence and base of knowledge. Thus, all humans will shed their bodies eventually, living in an evironment where there is no pain, hunger, disease. A veritable paradise. Then, of course, this supposition is based on the fact that humans DON’T blow themselves up, kill each other with biological warfare, or manipulate our genes so extensively that we all come to an genetic dead end and we die out from infertility….