Sunday, September 25, 2011

singulary theory

When I was reading the article on the idea of singularity, the whole time I felt as if I were reading something on a science fiction novel.  The idea that technology can eventually grow more advanced than us is frightening in some ways.  Especially with all these movies on apocolyptic futures where machines overpower mankind.  However it also provided not so scary ideas.  Such as just simply merging with technology instead of technology taking over the human race.  Solving many problems such as age and disease.  The one thing that continued to question in my mind was how it says "Creating a work of art is one of those activities we reserve for humans and humans only."  Well, what do we really reserve for humans to do now?  For example music and autotune.  There's already the technology to allow it to make it seem like someone can sing, when they really can't.  What do humans do that we don't allow technology to do already?  It proposes the idea of what does it mean to be human? When I think of Bernard from "A Brave New World" and how he tries to look for more humane ways of life, he speaks of "being free" but does being free mean being technology free?  In the world of "A Brave New World" the humans are bred in factories through test tubes.  But does that make them less human? There's no technological advancements physically inside of them.  However the way they're raised up almost turns them into machines the way they think and act.  That had me thinking that technology wouldn't turn us into machines, we would do that ourselves.  Cause of course we have control over this whole situation of technology.  Someone has to turn on the computer, right?

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