An Essay

Why I believe there is hope in the future of humanity

aka when robots master the earth

The Sum

Of

Human Experiences

Can

Only

Be Found

In Art

The sum of all our dreams, our technology, our history. Of all our hopes and politics. Human experience is varied and the same (eg. We all have mothers, though all our mothers are different.) Can such infinite dimensions and infinite possibility truly be described as a scientific truism? Only the gods could form so perfect a philosophical question that could cause description of all that is known and unknown?

Found as art, a piece can be infinite on the canvas of the mind of the observer.

Fractals are a literal example. Though the fractal is contained within the image boundaries, it can represent an infinitely long line (∞). The less literal example of such an object d'art is found as words on a page. Simple, but beautiful, and powerful. The record of our personal, global human histories, including what is unfolding right now in the present. There is art in every day. It can be seen if you are free to see it.

There will come a time when the delay between the request for information from the Internet is virtually nil. Be it through voice command, tactile input, or some sorta brain thingy, it's going to be fast and accurate.

There is every likelihood that the Internet and all computer technology was released to the public by the military, with consideration of this reason. Of course, there is every likelihood that the opposite could be true and it bring about a kind of global enlightenment and peace. (If you ask me, I'm an optimist, but also a realist.)

Whatever the intentions of it's inventors, the Internet is here to stay. It will be a source of profound study by our ancestors, be they flesh, metal, or otherwise. Wouldn't it be wonderful if it could be stored in crystals for until the end of the Earth? Or better yet, sent to other habitable planets with the seeds of life? Maybe we should all listen to the hippies and hear the sounds in the stone. Maybe not.

There is some concern amongst my contemporaries in the technology and science depts that suggests the future of may kind may not be in bodies of flesh and blood at all. That robot technology is improving year over year and month after month. That creating an intelligence first requires a sophisticated body and that very body will eventually be possible and at least somewhat cost effective.

Then comes the brain. An energy efficient multinodal Aneural network of lightspeed processors capable of understanding sarcasm, intentions and deceptions, and perhaps even other complex emotional states, and because it can understand them, it can "feel" them. After all, our brains are just very complex machines.

You might want to turn the sound off for this one:

The Internet represents everything new. It represents a new way to think about life, and especially about space.

Every old way of doing something, from running a corporation, to keeping a band together & hot, becomes new. Problems of communication solved, and so ideas are shared across borders both physical and social. At every level of thinking; a permanent, highspeed, borderless, limitless meta-media connection between people; rocks the boat. I can share something with you that you experience with 2 of your senses so far, sometimes even now there is touch involved. You can expect the minutes you spend touching or being touched by technology to increase exponentially (with every generation, every decade or less). We've already had Smell-O-Vision before, maybe that'll make a comeback.

Business, religion, romance, government; All the ways we take care in communication have all been revised, and are constantly being re-evaluated, or enhanced by some connected form of technology. And this is not a new trend; It's been the same since the late 1800's in a way that is beyond human minds and paper.