This post is leading a bit off topic, but no better place than this thread for what I'm about to say. Moderator(s), please remove if too disruptive to yt.com:
It has long been my fear that technology will be our eventual demise. Unlimited power is right around the corner, artificial intelligence is well into its infancy, and mankind is still as dangerous and destructive as ever before - in some ways even more so. How long do you think we will be allowed to continue as we please?
When you combine unlimited power with robotics, you will have a devastating force to be reckoned with! Combine that with the new-found intelligence that is coming to be - no, it will not always be called "Artificial" Intelligence! It will simply be the ultimate of intelligence - all computers/electronic devices around the world all connected together, all knowing and ALL powerful!
It is sometimes difficult to believe in a god that you cannot see or experience firsthand, which is why God is being thrown under the bus!! Once all the above parts are in place, technology will become, for all intent purposes, our new god. ...So can we prevent this from happening? Honestly? Much of engineering taught nowdays consists of teaching people how to program a computer to do the engineering "for" us, and it's only getting worse!!
Think we can write in some special code or make special conditions? Even the inescapable prison Alcatraz had 3 people escape. It was used for less than 30 years, and criminals were able to figure out how to get around the barriers. Do you think a world-wide super computer that knows all and sees all couldn't figure a way out?
We require leadership to get major things done. Nations require government, business requires CEO's and other white collar jobs, even the individual home has leaders - though it often varies between wife and husband. Therefore, major decisions require time - time that the all-knowing computer would have answers for in milliseconds, and have that answer transmitted all over the world just as quickly.
There is no escaping what is to come. We are already FAR too dependent on technology! It hasn't been a matter of "if" for a very, very long time - decades even!
So what can we do? Well, this is where we need to dig deep down and find our faith, because when the time comes, ONLY God will be able to save us! By that time even we piddly little humans won't even be able to do much.
For those of you who think I'm way off the deep end here, think about this - just stop and consider all of the resources we use (and waste!) every day. Food, fuel, air, water, land, TIME, ...and even resources such as metals and rock/concrete, not to mention all of the synthetic materials we have so far developed and what has yet to be developed - materials that do not function in a natural way. The new age is coming. I fear I will still be alive to see it, but I pray I will not!!
Even with all of this, someone is bound and determined to bring up (again) that "someone" has to dream up/design/engineer/build these new things. If you re-read this post more closely, you'll see where this is coming to change. It's not going to happen overnight, or even by next year, but it WILL happen - technology will some day be designing and building based on ITS needs; not ours. One day there will be no human intervention in many if not all processes.
...Did you know that some of the newer metal detectors communicate with your smart phone? My wife has a sewing machine that can work 100% by computer, other than threading the machine and picking out the fabric. How difficult would that be in a high-tech future? Cars are expected to be driving themselves in the foreseeable future; some already park themselves better than the drivers who own them! Even kitchen appliances all communicate with and interact with centralized home automation systems. ...Do you think these systems can't or don't communicate with other systems outside the home?? Again, it IS coming! If things don't go well, it may end up being that technology will one day choose that mankind does not deserve all the perks and priority that we currently have. Until we hit that tipping point, there will be people who stay short-sighted and won't (or can't) see the larger picture down the road.
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