It is estimated that by 2045 machines will outnumbered humans [RT Jul 6-2014]. At the same time, machines are expected to be more intelligent than humans. Keep in mind that medicine is implementing robotic parts for humans already, therefore humans themselves will be some kind of cyborgs like in the movies. However, far away of predicting an utopian future where humans will have a stressless life with machines doing everything, our unpredictable human nature would cause machines to consider us a menace to the “bionic system” of the coming future. Humans for thousands of years have proven to have a high propensity to destroy and exploit for personal gain.
Robots won’t be precisely wired metallic objects that can be discharged (unplugged) or put apart. Rather, science is creating real-life cybernetic organisms that will be able to get their fuel from light. This inorganic machines are truly the sci-fi dream come true [RT May 26-2014]. Stephen Hawking warns Robot of the future won’t need humans to improve themselves and eventually would overcome any dependancy. Experts say nuclear war is danger number one to the existence of humankind, but right after that we have the “rise of machines” [AlterNet Jul 26-2014]. A special menace to human existence is nano technology. Machines will be so small an so effective reproducing themselves that will act pretty much as a virus [AlterNet Oct 5-2014].
By now, machines are already an integral part of our life. Just remember the Y2K scare, in that way, no country can get rid of an important advantage as having machines doing all kinds of work. Our capitalist system puts us in the deadly spiral where countries must compete with each other at any cost. Here we are not talking just robots that very shortly will be your waiters and cooks on restaurants putting thousands unemployed. The danger of countries competing on technology is war.
Countries like the US and Russia are in a relentless race to produce the most efficient killers [RT Oct 27-2014]. For example, we have the mule robot LS3 that can carry 180kg of equipment and cover 640 kilometers in just 24 hours. We also have the running and jumping robot Cheetah 2. As its name suggests, it runs up to thirty miles an hour, faster than Usain Bolt who is known as the fastest person on the planet. No less impressive are the drones that swarm through alleys, crawl across windowsills, perch on power lines and sneak up on a scowling man holding a gun and shoots him in the head. These are the “Micro air vehicles” and they will be more lethal and smaller as years come.
People around the world have major challenges ahead. It is not science itself that is causing the danger but the criminal competition among nations and the permanent need to put Capital before humankind. We better come up with a solution and resolve our conflicts in all sincerity or, if nuclear war doesn’t kill us, cyborgs will do the job. And we wouldn’t be useful, not even as batteries as we saw on the film “The Matrix.”
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A Cyborg Dream Come True . . . or the End of Humankind
It is estimated that by 2045 machines will outnumbered humans [RT Jul 6-2014]. At the same time, machines are expected to be more intelligent than humans. Keep in mind that medicine is implementing robotic parts for humans already, therefore humans themselves will be some kind of cyborgs like in the movies. However, far away of predicting an utopian future where humans will have a stressless life with machines doing everything, our unpredictable human nature would cause machines to consider us a menace to the “bionic system” of the coming future. Humans for thousands of years have proven to have a high propensity to destroy and exploit for personal gain.
Robots won’t be precisely wired metallic objects that can be discharged (unplugged) or put apart. Rather, science is creating real-life cybernetic organisms that will be able to get their fuel from light. This inorganic machines are truly the sci-fi dream come true [RT May 26-2014]. Stephen Hawking warns Robot of the future won’t need humans to improve themselves and eventually would overcome any dependancy. Experts say nuclear war is danger number one to the existence of humankind, but right after that we have the “rise of machines” [AlterNet Jul 26-2014]. A special menace to human existence is nano technology. Machines will be so small an so effective reproducing themselves that will act pretty much as a virus [AlterNet Oct 5-2014].
By now, machines are already an integral part of our life. Just remember the Y2K scare, in that way, no country can get rid of an important advantage as having machines doing all kinds of work. Our capitalist system puts us in the deadly spiral where countries must compete with each other at any cost. Here we are not talking just robots that very shortly will be your waiters and cooks on restaurants putting thousands unemployed. The danger of countries competing on technology is war.
Countries like the US and Russia are in a relentless race to produce the most efficient killers [RT Oct 27-2014]. For example, we have the mule robot LS3 that can carry 180kg of equipment and cover 640 kilometers in just 24 hours. We also have the running and jumping robot Cheetah 2. As its name suggests, it runs up to thirty miles an hour, faster than Usain Bolt who is known as the fastest person on the planet. No less impressive are the drones that swarm through alleys, crawl across windowsills, perch on power lines and sneak up on a scowling man holding a gun and shoots him in the head. These are the “Micro air vehicles” and they will be more lethal and smaller as years come.
People around the world have major challenges ahead. It is not science itself that is causing the danger but the criminal competition among nations and the permanent need to put Capital before humankind. We better come up with a solution and resolve our conflicts in all sincerity or, if nuclear war doesn’t kill us, cyborgs will do the job. And we wouldn’t be useful, not even as batteries as we saw on the film “The Matrix.”