Predicting The Far Out Future
from the we're-not-talking-about-next-year dept
A great article in Discover Magazine about James Martin's view of the future. You don't have to believe it all, but it's obvious this isn't something he just came up with yesterday. They preface the article saying that in the late 70s Martin predicted the whole internet revolution so you should believe him. I don't necessarily think you should automatically believe him, but it's always useful to read what various "futurists" think, just to keep your mind open to various ideas.
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James Martin:CyberVisionary?
"Martin predicts that in as little as 10 years,what he calls breeding factories-vast buildings as big as a General Motors assembly plant filled with parallel-processing supercomputers-will dot the Earth."HELLLO>> Remember,Terminator 2???SKYNET?? Or here's another movie example from Wargames:Rember what the General said about taking people out the loop..If We want these supercomputers or AIs to learn,then let them learn from us.Im for an all-evoling neural-net vision of the Internet but let's be able to plug into it ala William Gibson and control the exponential growth of AIs.Or else
the nightmares of Terminator 2 and Blade Runner will come back to haunt us.Our own creation will seek to eliminate and surpass us.Just something to think about.....
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