On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:08:09PM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > My own theory is that given sufficient advances in technology, we will > have nothing to do, or too much to do, either way it will hit an > extreme. Religion and other mental crutches will give way to more
Much more interestingly, replication times of humans need decades, whereas machines could replicate in minutes (and "Inherit the Earth" was a metaphor too easy to misunderstand, it should have been "The Universe"). The limits are energy and resources, and of course means of production can and will autoamplify as well. > rational scientific thought. There will be increasingly more people > who will posess their own ideas, and not spoon fed sophisms. They will > choose to therefore live in their own virtual worlds, and interact > lesser and lesser with real life human beings. Whatever people will do, their numbers are relatively irrelevant. Whether it's zero, or 10^10, it doesn't really matter, comparatively. There's a lot of material in this solar system alone. > I'm guessing this will either lead to an enlightened existence > (unlikely), or all of humanity growing depressed and commiting suicide > realizing the pointless life that remains to be led. Pointless is meaningless. Life needs to further justification than just being. Emptyness and pointlessness are just transient stages of an increasingly maladapted species -- either bound to be modified, or go extinct. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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