Things that will be Obsolete in the future?
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We will be obsolete. Seriously, if not through AI, then through artificial life being brought to you by DARPA, who also brought you the internet (or helped, anyway)
Skip the off-topic parts in parantheses if you want the tl;dr parts
Religion already is, you know it's true. Common sense needs to take over - sadly, quite a few people seem to lack it.
(Before I get hacked on for saying that, let me assure you, I don't mind people who are -down to earth- and aligns themselves to a religion. Like my home towns former preacher, he wasn't opposed to taking a few glasses of wine at a pub during the weekends, never pushed "God" in people's faces and when visiting a late friend of my family at his cabin in the mountains, who said "Well, now I'm not the kind of guy who goes to church very often..", the preacher's reply was "Oh, doesn't matter, I'm sure you're a good person despite it" and laughed. If only religious people could copy his example.)
I assume most things we use widely today will become obsolete in the future.. -if- we survive that long. If we just meld away all those crappy borders and become one autonomous, multi-cultural nation.. (we would stand a chance against the alien invaders when they finally show themselves!)
(In all seriousness though, aliens are more likely than not to exist. Believing we're the only intelligent (a term open for discussion) species in the universe is the pinnacle of arrogance. However, I don't believe they've ever been to Earth, or ever will in our generation.)
Yeah, much off-topic shite there, carry on.
Religion already is, you know it's true. Common sense needs to take over - sadly, quite a few people seem to lack it.
(Before I get hacked on for saying that, let me assure you, I don't mind people who are -down to earth- and aligns themselves to a religion. Like my home towns former preacher, he wasn't opposed to taking a few glasses of wine at a pub during the weekends, never pushed "God" in people's faces and when visiting a late friend of my family at his cabin in the mountains, who said "Well, now I'm not the kind of guy who goes to church very often..", the preacher's reply was "Oh, doesn't matter, I'm sure you're a good person despite it" and laughed. If only religious people could copy his example.)
I assume most things we use widely today will become obsolete in the future.. -if- we survive that long. If we just meld away all those crappy borders and become one autonomous, multi-cultural nation.. (we would stand a chance against the alien invaders when they finally show themselves!)
(In all seriousness though, aliens are more likely than not to exist. Believing we're the only intelligent (a term open for discussion) species in the universe is the pinnacle of arrogance. However, I don't believe they've ever been to Earth, or ever will in our generation.)
Yeah, much off-topic shite there, carry on.
You know, I think the most realistic view of the future is from the movie: I-Robot. I mean, damn, it's like as if the director and his crew went in a time machine for a week and filmed the whole damn thing.
#1 It's DARPA, cost doesn't matter.stinkychops said:
#2 We are discussing creating an entity which could well start 'working' for itself. Once the project makes it far enough costs will come down.
#3 We are talking about what will be obsolete in the future. Not tomorrow, or at the end of the solar system, just 'in the future'. We are working on to make ourselves obsolete and given enough time we will achieve it.
#4 And for the final bit:
[a]http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/1925203/DARPA-Aims-for-Synthetic-Life-With-a-Kill-Switch?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)[/a]
Yeah, the American military really does think they can control their creations, because the internet is still just a military/research institute project, because nuclear non-proliferation worked out so well, because military grade weapons never make it into the hands of children etc. etc. etc. (would you believe me if I told you I love the American military? I really do...)
They did. Weren't you there? The rest of us were...Thibaut said:
[small]or was that something I smoked while watching the film in the future making me think I saw everyone there?[/small]
I hope that everything with the i prefix will become obsolete in the future. Just because I dislike how Apple controls almost everything about today's culture.
