[OT] Your visions of the future.

[Askan Nightbringer]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
-Will we achieve AI? When? What will be the ramifications for humanity? Will we all become cyborgs?

I hope not. When most tasks can be carried out by machines what becomes the point of man?
Would we then get to live in some Utopian paradise while our worker robots do all the stuff and grow all the food? If there is no need for man to think will our brains shrivel up and our heads get smaller?

Askan

[Fyron]

It'll most certainly evolve; maybe perhaps we'll worship unified field theories as god itself, just as the greeks did once, with their pythagorean theorems.

Only a few Greeks did that. The vast majority of them stuck with the traditional gods.

[Krsqk]

-Will the usa conquer the entire world? I certainly hope not. Neither I or the vast majority of my countrymen have any desire to conquer the world. I seriously doubt we could pull it off if we wanted to, and wouldn't know what to do with it afterwards if we could.

I foresee:

-Cricket and rugby, two games the majority of Americans neither understand nor care to, will be abolished within minutes of the end of world conquest;

-The Yankees will continue their trend of winning the World Series 85% of the time, and their payroll will hit twelve times the size of the next highest team;

-The NFL will continue to expand the playoffs to the top 131 teams out of 132, resulting in games being played round the clock all weekend long until the quarterfinals.

-Fidel Castro will still be "alive," a spring chicken of 183 years old, although he will have changed height and weight seven times, and will have been a platinum blonde with a strong resemblance to Britney Spears at least twice. He will still be wearing the same military uniform. In other news, it will be noticed that Britney Spears resembles a short Hispanic man shortly before she records two top-10 Latin albums.

-SECCLXV will be released. Malfador Machinations will receive complaints from the AI that the players aren't moddable enough.

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Cyrien:
The whole borg brain hive mind thing is overdone. A single entity thinking brain. I think we as people are fascinated with this because we always want to know what others are thinking and a hive mind always does ANMD gets along! HAH! How well does your single mind get along with itself? If we all hooked up wouldn't like thinking minds hook themselves up and then not want to mix their great big brain with that nasty ugly big brain over there? Or maybe one mind dominates the others and takes control... wouldn't all the others fight back?

I couldn't help but laugh when I thought about this... As we have 2 hemispheres in our brain, there would be 2 hemispheres in the Hive mind, Male and Female, so I see the following happening.

The Male side thinks, "Hey, I wanna have sex!!!" and the Female side thinks "GOD, is that ALL you think about?"..."Yes" the Male side says sheepishly... and the Hive Mind dies because the Female side gets too frustrated with the Male side *chuckle* (like a brain cramp).

[Fyron]

As we have 2 hemispheres in our brain, there would be 2 hemispheres in the Hive mind, Male and Female, so I see the following happening.

The hemispheres of the human mind have nothing to do with gender.

[Narrew]

[quote]Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

The hemispheres of the human mind have nothing to do with gender.

Was just my vision of the hive mind, an analogy if you will, not based on fact, hence why I was laughing when I thought about it.

[Fyron]

Oh, ok.