GREETINGS RENOGADES!

---WARNING:  This article is for Geeks and Nerds ONLY!---

One thing I find myself often saying is, "Computers!  Who's ever idea!" (This, of course is said like an old man waving his fist at some punk kids)   I don't know what is going on lately, but my entire circle of computers is taking a beating.  I once heard that the human mind is capable of thinking at around 100 trillion calculations per second... Well, many of todays supercomputers are clocking in speeds in the quadrillions!  So I sometimes think that the internet has already achieved consciousness and it entertains itself by pissing me off! (For literalists or people without a sense of humor, I don't REALLY believe this, but for the sake of this journal, let's say I do .... and ok, maybe I do, a LITTLE)

  Now, the difference between the way our brains function and a computer functions is something I believe is called Quantum Intelligence... Where a computer sees everything as 1s and 0s, a human brain operates within the infinite between 0 and 1.  If you adapted the most powerful computer in the world to think with Quantum Intelligence, it would barely be the equivalent of a pocket calculator. (The story I heard is that the most difficult task a computer has completed using Quantum Intelligence is 3x5=15)

  Computers think perfectly, logically, and directly (except for mine, of course) while humans are filled with all kinds of random disconnect that, while limiting us, are also what give us that creative spark and humanity... Computers function with purpose while we are blessed or cursed (depending on your interpretation) with having most of our brain function used to process emotions.  These emotions are there for our survival, every emotion we feel can be tied into one form of survival or another.  The logical part of our brains is relatively new in our development and is nowhere near as powerful.  It's said that when you have a gut feeling about something, it's usually right because the "Survival Supercomputer" we have has already processed all the information and has given it's opinion, while the shiny new "Logic Center" we humans now possess is still thinking about what it has just learned.  So I've been told, if you have an important decision to make, flip a coin... it doesn't matter what the coin says, it's how you FEEL about what it says that matters.

  Ray Kurzweil (a famous tech visionary) has laid out his predictive timeline for computers.  By applying the rate of growth where computer power doubles every year or so, he has predicted when they will reach the power of the human mind, then when they will surpass the entirety of the human race, to the point where they will reach a singularity of advancement, a virtual event horizon, where their power will increase so quickly, that they will progress in minutes what it took mankind countless millenia to achieve.  He says this will all occur by around 2045, a point where we will be able to "upload" our minds into machines and become immortal.

  Computers can think, they can learn, they can feed, and some can virtually procreate ... so how long until we call them a new species?  What if we eventually integrate biological material with them, will we have to develop a new Kingdom to categorize them? Like 'Plants' and 'Animals', will we also have a 'Machine' Kingdom?  Or by the fact that they are a creation of man, will they forever be considered a non-life form?  Once computers achieve a distinct level of intelligence, they will themselves be immortal, in that everything they learn and experience can be downloaded to newer and better machines, and they can be made from practically indestructible materials, and they can be repaired or replaced at anytime.  Their entire world of knowledge could live on forever!  Heck, this very article may live forever within the hive mind of the Borg... I mean, on the Internet... or in the Machine Kingdom... whatever it may be.  Whatever it is, their level of comprehension and knowledge will far exceed our own.  Our puny minds will be to them what a fish's brain is to us.  But we may actually merge at some point... And if we do, you have to ask yourself- Will we become them, or will they become us?  (Too bad I didn't upload my brain yet, cuz I think that just blew my mi............*

>>Error:*Brain*---OFFLINE  
/C:Reboot sys   

  Which brings me back to my original point... I sometimes get SO frustrated with my computers I swear I'll never use them again (I had TWO hard drive failures in a week!) but I feel like I NEED them sometimes.  But come on, people got along just fine without them just a few years ago but now it's like we'd fall apart without them.  In another twenty years you'll wonder how you ever got along without whatever new gadget you got in your home, stuffed in your pocket, or implanted in your body.  We'll forever be slaves to the latest and greatest technology... until we are eventually slaves to the very machines we created.

So I constantly ask myself, "Really...what have they given me that I absolutely cannot live without?"

... what's that, you say? ..... unlimited porn?  ....damn.  I guess all I can say to that is...

WELCOME, our Great and Powerful Computer Overlords!

(*Sigh* ...at least THEY won't be controlled by their wieners.)


Reno
Supreme Leader of the Renogades
Future Slave to 'Cy-bot 3000'



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