samedi 5 juillet 2008
Internet and politics 4
So now with the IPhone, the Instinct, the N95 etc. you will be connected at all times. Every minute of your life, even when you sleep. So there is 1 billion computers in the world right now but more than 2 billion phones. Those phone will become sooner or later computer in the fullest sense, as those smart phones are already. So if the IPhone is $199 now, in 18 month it will be half that, and 36 month half that again ans so on. So our meta-brain will bring the majority of human within his reach in a very few years. What does that mean? A lot of things but beside what have already been written by sci-fi writers I will say that we will have the most powerful living brain on this planet that have ever existed. So powerful in fact that the only thing more powerful will be god himself, assuming that god exist (for the atheist!). The big question is will that brain be good for individuals or not? My personal answer is no. This is not a simple answer, even if it looks like one. Why? With the advance of technology, we've reached an inflection point. Turing did see that in the 50's so nothing new here. We've reached that limit when the internet was created. Even if not everything was there yet, like a small chidren who got everything that an adult have but can't use it because of his lack of maturity. So a few other questions come to mind, will you be able to get out of that brain if you want? Probably not. Will that brain manifest itself to human kind? Probably not. As a human could I detect that brain? Probably not. Anyway, more on this latter.
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