Apprehension, was listmail

2010-05-03 Thread Keith Henson
This list may have somewhat of the same kind of problem science fiction does in general. The problem is runaway technology. Think of how long painting and story telling lasted. Movies are still using film, but that's rapidly coming to an end VHS tape is about gone after decades. DVD replaced

Re: Apprehension, was listmail

2010-05-03 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Keith Henson hkeithhen...@gmail.com wrote: This list may have somewhat of the same kind of problem science fiction does in general. The problem is runaway technology. In other words, perhaps the list doesn't need us anymore. I've seen a lot of web sites like

Re: Apprehension, was listmail

2010-05-03 Thread Wayne Eddy
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Keith Henson hkeithhen...@gmail.com wrote: The concept here leads to the singularity, of nanotechnology and weakly godlike AI. I see no way to avoid it. It doesn't matter if humans manage to keep up with advancing technology or wind up relating to our