Well put, Godfrey. Man will eventually go further. He will need to do a
lot to save mother earth too. Too many people, too few resources. We
can't be far from the tipping point.
AI. There is no such thing. Machines only react to mountains of info in
their databases. They are incapable of original thought. The problems
with driverless cars occur when situations not in their databases are
encountered. At best, machines & robots are nothing more than super slaves.
Alan C
On 20-Jul-19 08:56 PM, Jos de Fotograaf wrote:
Right Godfrey,
maybe the last really great thing we did before our role in evolution
will be taken over by AI / Robotics.
I would give a few years of my life for a glance in the future.....
Greetz, Jos van der Hijden
On 7/20/2019 7:20 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
And today is the day, 50 years on, that Mankind first touched another
planet. All of us, together. OMG! The whole world watched in awe and
wonder, and was uplifted by that fact.
All the problems of the world were then as well as now, as well as
for all the generations of history before and since. That will always
be. And the true sadness of the Apollo missions, despite all that
pushing to do this and creating all the technology and good stuff
that it spawned which helps human beings live longer, be more
productive, and look at the world and the stars around them with new
insights, is that it ended and we haven't gone back or further yet.
But, g*****n it, we managed to do something incredible. We did
something worth writing in the history of our species that no other
species we know has done. And all the naysayers and querulous
ambivalents in the world can moan and whine and whinge about whether
we should have or not, but it doesn't matter at all: We managed to do
it, and it was good, and it is amazing, and it brought all of us
worldwide together for one shining moment of joy and wonder.
If that's not worth whatever it cost, then nothing is.
G
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