Wednesday 9 October 2013

Near end of world scenario

I would like to expand on a previous philosophical concept idea around the potential use/misuse of technology to save mankind in a bleak future on the brink of extinction.  If you like, it's kind of like a future war of the world's where technology versus God

history of supercomputers so far  (2 - nil)
supercomputers vs Chess master (initially lost but then famously won, (Deep Blue vs Gary Kasparov)
supercomputers vs Jeopardy (US game show) (also initially lost but won, when new logic algorithms were added)

There's this overriding idea that technology and the spread of it and the power of it is only good and can only come to good.  We are driving this idea every day, living this dream of short term obsolescence, whatever we buy today is obsolete by next year in a technology/computer sense.

What if this thinking is driving us to a point down the track that we cannot escape from or turn back, creating our own demise.

The NSA is already developing a huge data centre in the Utah dessert that can possibly hold all of the worlds data in a few years, for obvious reasons they believe this a good and desirous thing.

There is this philosophical idea too that perhaps in the future computers would be powerful enough to store all of mankind's information, details from the beginning of time, our very own human and animal DNA, our very essence and memories of every person that ever lived.

 For me this is where the philosophical gets a bit lost to the practical side, exactly how this could be done is a mystery. The idea is, that at some point in this future time, there might be some knowledge that the end is nigh and that the computers could save mankind by rebooting us back to the beginning (pretend they exist out in space somewhere safe from the annihilation).

At the second of annihilation or what those religious might believe is the Epiphany or Parousia                  (or the 2nd coming), (you see the computers are self-aware in the future and predictive and they will be able to tell), they will powerful enough and enough enough power to generate a new future world, where the whole thing gets replayed over again even creating physical worlds think very large 3D or 4D printer..   (perhaps also in a new time dimension vortex).

Who knows, we could be going through the 2nd or 49th reboot already, how would you know?  What if this happened and it prevented everyone's final ascension, if you like keeping us in a state of purgatory until the supercomputers die, for surely they would have to eventually.  There could also be a duality of existence at play, where everyone did ascend and we also live our replayed lives out at the same time, unbeknownst to both selves.

It is a funny philosophical idea this, that someone came up with and I espoused on, which kind of shows the stupid faith that we put on computers and technology in general.  More of a concern to me is the NSA and other US government agencies and there potential to start playing God, with the use of the first supercomputers (IBM) that can store all the world's flow of information, phone calls, emails, chat sessions, even the dark web.  Now how do you stop that? That which is already legislated for.



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