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Old 04-21-2017, 08:33 AM
 
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I agree. I see more of a borg society happening at the end of it. Whether that will be a go or a bad thing....I don't know. But I would say, I think more people than not will be "assimilated" willingly.

Personally I'm willing to take the chance on being "upgraded."
Really???
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Old 04-21-2017, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Keller, TX
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A few good links, for those who want to learn more and keep up with where our world is headed, for better or worse:I also highly recommend the Wait But Why essay that greywar posted above. It took me a few hours to get through it including a lot of sidebar link-chasing, but it was worth it.
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Old 04-21-2017, 12:21 PM
 
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Really???
Notice the word chance? Its the gamble. Read the waitbutwhy link I put up, specifically the last chapter of it, all though the entire thing is a great read. I tend to agree that it will be a much more individualistic future, even more then today. But there IS risk. Especially as we start to integrate with AI eventually. I suspect that is a long ways out however.
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Old 04-24-2017, 09:42 AM
 
Location: Keller, TX
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I watched a new series on Prime called "America's Surveillance State." It was okay, though it didn't present all that much new information to me. But it got me to thinking. One thing that was evident is that the NSA doesn't consider collecting everything to be "collecting" at all.

If we're one day able to read thoughts, project thoughts digitally, share thoughts "telepathically," use thoughts to control technology... that sounds like we'll be quantizing thoughts, turning them into 1s and 0s -- data. And it sounds like something the NSA will want to have its mitts on.

With the explosion in storage capability, in AI necessary to make sense of and query big data, and with the new technologies that Musk and Zuckerberg are working on, it seems to make sense the NSA will want to collect this data too. Maybe they will only collect the "metadata" on our projected and shared thoughts. Or maybe that's what they'll tell us they're doing.

Collection of thoughts is probably 25-35 years away, so the bulk of people alive at that time will have had things like social media and smartphones for most of their lives. Artificial intellect will have taken most of the intellectual labor by then, and the government will be large and in charge of a lot of things in people's lives.
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Old 04-24-2017, 09:43 AM
 
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Really???
Yeah really. You got a crystal ball there Nostradamus?
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Old 04-24-2017, 09:46 AM
 
Location: In The Thin Air
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I am still waiting for flying cars. It was supposed to happen by 2000.
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Old 04-24-2017, 09:57 AM
 
Location: NC
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I think the FB timeline is interesting in that it's supposedly a business plan vs just musing. Whether it will all come true, or on the timeline he proposes, who knows. Few if any of these predictions come true exactly as described by even the most knowledgeable seers. But it has sure been interesting to watch technology innovation over the past few decades, and I expect things will change even faster in the decades ahead. I welcome the changes for the most part, most of my peers are 'afraid of the unknowns.'
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Old 04-24-2017, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Keller, TX
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I am still waiting for flying cars. It was supposed to happen by 2000.
There are a lot of reasons those aren't in production.

Isaac Newton Says You Can't Have a Flying Car

Top 5 Reasons You Don't Want a Flying Car

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But inroads are still being made:

Dubai To Put Autonomous Taxi Drones In The Skies 'This Summer'

Watch this all-electric ‘flying car’ take its first test flight in Germany
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Old 04-24-2017, 10:57 AM
 
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Trump's wall will be obsolete before it's completed. Drones which carry humans a short distance will be available to take people over the wall and gently lower them to the ground on the other side. They'll use the drones to bring people over to the other side and to bring drugs to the other side.
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Old 04-24-2017, 11:17 AM
 
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It sounds pretty blue pilled to give oneself over to artificial anything. It won't make us better it will make the powers better and stronger and we will just be very docile and willing sources to facilitate their utter domination. All we are is human, nothing about a newborn baby is artificial. How can we look at a child and say it isn't good enough, we have to hook its brain up to something "better". I suppose we won't even need school anymore, the common brain will do all the thinking.

We should be putting all the intelligence into areas like medical research, curing painful diseases, not making silly glasses to make people feel like their real lives are not good enough.
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