Some people might be convincing, but Elon Musk? Nope. I like being fully human.
Posted on 02/13/2017 6:23:05 AM PST by C19fan
Weber and Ringo have an interesting take on the merging of human and machine.
Most people have a “toot” Short for tutorial something. It acts mostly as a teaching device and PDA where you can store information and access it at needed (something I could use). It is a military SF series so it is also used for communications, weapon targeting etc.
On downside is that they can be reprogrammed and turn a person into a toot zombie, you are awake and conscious while the person that has taken over your toot controls your actions.
>>. I suppose I made myself “irrelevant”.
No, you started out irrelevant and you failed to make yourself relevant (remember that you are just a clump of cosmic dust). Perhaps you had a belief in “the Invisble Sky Fairy” or perhaps you are stuck in some earlier form of Naturalism that you find relevance to be irrelevant. It’s the worldview that they are stuck in. It’s why they trust celebrities, because those people have raised their perceived relevance to such a high level.
I want a vacuum that rolls around and vacs. But...Sadly a human still has to dust.
Some robots are meant to be heard but not seen, as with Siri.
I still don’t like “conversing” with an algorithm.
I don’t even like responding to voice mail back and forth.
Sometimes, i have no choice but to play the game.
Sooner that you think, we will have some kind of neural interface, and from there, its only a matter of time.
I’m pretty sure my wife has merged with her coffee machine - don’t think it’s working out all that well for either of them.
Some people might be convincing, but Elon Musk? Nope. I like being fully human.
Cats claim first dibs on human servitude.
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