I came across this and thought it was interesting enough to share. As I have begun to rely on computers more and more over the last few years in order to handle the increased workload, I find myself not remembering things like I used to. http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/02/04/stinwenws01005.html
AHA.....that's it.! It was the computer all along...and I thought it was all the herb I have smoked over the years...
....Wait...I just remembered something else.....uh...uh....damn! I just forgot again....
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Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
Oh damn, I forgot what I was going to post about.
And I can't quite remember what the story was about because I was too distracted by the blinking cursor.
Where am I?
How did I get here anyway?
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Posted by LazyEdna (Member # 266) on :
I am reading this fascinating book, titled, "The Age of Spiritual Machines". I highly recommend it to people who LIKE to read. The premise is that the next rung on the evolutionary ladder is the machines we have created... computers. When we have replaced our "worn out and defective" body parts with machines we have built to replace them... will we still be human? The important debate for the 21st century will be: How do we DEFINE human? I'm only 50 pages in, but it has really grabbed me. And as an added bonus.. it does require thinking while you read it... so you can fight off that dreaded disease.. televisionitis survivorus. LE
------------------ LazyEdna in RL known as Sara Straw from southern Utah 5 National Parks within 3 hours drive Red Rock Heaven
Posted by Tim Whitcher (Member # 685) on :
I remember reading an article in the early '70's that said the same thing about TV....now, what was I saying? Oh, well.
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Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
Interesting comment, LE, re: How do we define human? This fits in with debates on genetic research and nano-technology. Some time ago I read a comment that we may be seeing the last few generations of "wild" humans, genetically speaking. Hmmm...
BTW, we apparently agree on one thing at least; the idea of television as brain poison...
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Posted by LazyEdna (Member # 266) on :
To Cam: Sorry.. we do NOT agree that "television is poison"... I was making specific reference to the Survivor show on television. Personally, I have found a great deal of useful intelligent programing on television. And bear in mind... I am not the least bit interested in agreement. As far as television, computers, and the internet being damaging to human thinking abilities... I'd have to suggest that we examine the specific humans .... I have a feeling many humans were equally "synaptically challenged" before those electronic pastimes existed. LE
------------------ LazyEdna in RL known as Sara Straw from southern Utah 5 National Parks within 3 hours drive Red Rock Heaven
Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :
Glen, I can't thank you enough for that post. I'm sending it to my oldest son who is out of the country working. He lives next door to me so he calls work a vacation from women. ( Mom, wife & daughters) He is constantly accusing me of having what he terms "Oldtimer's Disease". Now I can tell him it's because he has a high tech mamma! I'm feeling better already. Now I will go for my walk. Didn't go this morning, Afraid I would get lost.
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Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
well we could all wind up like the BORG...."RESISTANCE IS FU-TILE, YOU WILL BE ASIMULATED"(7 of 9 can asimilate me any day..heheheh)....or there is always the sci-fi version of harlen ellison "I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I WANT TO SCREAM".....if you never read it....you will enjoy it...we built bookshelves all this weekend($145.00 worth of lumber & 2 days cuttin, screwin n' gluein)we got all our books back on shelfs, and i can get to my set of 1909 HARVARD CLASSICS 50 volumes....would you belive the person i got em from was gona put em in the trash?
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Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
interesting topic!!! Now if I only remember where I put my brush! before I read this article. Or is it the keyboard I'm looking for? No No is a pencil I know it was..Wait now I was handcutting some vinyl..Yea thats it! Wheres that knife.. or did I put the cat out last night and forgot her in the snowstorm? To Mucn Info..Way to much info.... Now I can't remember where my beer is!!! Oh ****! I just remembered that I locked the wife out last night with the cat... Boy am I in trouble again!
Raven/2001
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Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Glenn,
Thanks, I have too sent it along. My son teaches in the computer lab at the University. LE, who is the author by the way? (and speaking of Survivor, I turned on the last ten minutes last week and my dinners will never be the same, yuk.) let's see now, oh yeah, Deb
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Posted by Daniel R. Perez (Member # 1585) on :
Machines don't have a soul. Hey, why don't we create a monkey machine and see if it will evolve into woman!
------------------ There is nothing new under the sun. What will be has already been and what has been will be again. Daniel R. Perez Daniez Dzines Fresno, CA daniez2001@yahoo.com
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Posted by Bruce Jackson (Member # 45) on :
Technology will superceed us in many areas. Indeed it already has, but I can't imagine our inventions will superceed us in the areas of imagination and love. Certainly not from along the lines of our current technologies anyway.
All our technology is basic grunt stuff. The coding is hard and inflexible following the most simple forms of mathematics. The fanciest of our ideas, even the most fantastic projections, are so far from the mark as to be a joke.
These are areas that if we are ever to understand, then to develop technologies around, it will be after we have already evolved, or progressed, into something beyond what we are now.
One thing I believe about technology. When we get a better grasp on the true depths of mathematics, then we may begin to understand something of our nature.
