Transhuman?

Nanotext

These first few days have been an interesting experience for me, and continue to be. I am lost some of the time, but most of the time I am consumed by curiousity. This is a new way of looking at the world. So here goes my first Blog

A big part of me hopes that most of what I saw was fabricated and just science fiction. But now I fear that the science fiction that I hear no longer fiction, or will not remain fiction. The rest of me is happy that we have developed and are developing something that will save lives, but is it worth it?

One day artificial intelligence that we create may leave us behind unless we are able to evolve as quickly as it does. But humans cannot possibly evolve as quickly as we are evolving artificial intelligence, so the only solution seen by many is to become robotic in a sense ourselves. Through technology it is believed that the human life will be extended, from 80 years to hundreds and hundreds more. I don't believe that technology should extend our lives longer than what is natural, technology should only be used to cure and keep people healthy so that they can live to natural old age.

After this movie I now believe that the government should monitor technological advancements as well as it does medical advancements. The fear of cloning going horribly wrong is felt by many as a possible scenario for the development of more advanced artificial intelligence. The invention of nanobots sounds useful in the sense that we can use them to help heal sick people, (cancer patients, AIDS patients ....) but these things that can do anything that we want are not as good as it sounds when you think about it.

Nanobots have the ability to rearrange atoms, giving them infinite possibilities. Nanobots sound like they could solve all the problems on earth, creating anything we could ever need, even more nanobots. I can think of plenty of things that I would want these nanobots to create for me and many problems they could solve, from hunger to disease in less fortunate countries. This almost makes it all sound worth it, but to me the bad out weighs the bad. Cancer and all diseases are horrible things and I wish we had cures for everything, but I acknowledge that these horrible things are important to the mankind because it creates population control. Population control is especially important to day because the human population is a lot higher than what Earth can sustain. Earth is over populated already and the birth rate continues to be high and if we lower the death rate that will throw off the balance and I would not want to be around when that happens.

Beside the population problem that effects everyone on Earth, I see more problems on an individual level. The power to have whatever I want and the ability to do what ever I want, sounds awesome, for maybe the first year at best the first 5 years. I believe eventually I would get bored, having no problems and things to over come equals no drama and everyone starves for a little drama in their life (unconsciously at least). Life is not something that should be handed to you, you should have to work for what you have, that is where true happiness comes from. Why do you think the saying, "Money doesn't buy happiness," is so popular to use, because it is true. The ability to have whatever I want won't make me happy.

Nanobots world wide have the potential to create many problems between nations across the World. There is the possibility with equal power there will be "world peace," but I am pessimistic and know that "world peace" is a myth. People always will have disagreements and there will always be war going on somewhere in the world. Nanobots will just make war that much more catastrophic, many more lives sacrificed and much more damage done.

Before seeing this video I looked forward to technological advancements, I'm still amazed by the iphone. But the technology I look forward is a double edge sword, with most technology I'm excited to see what the average person will be able to do next, but will the technology developed today and tomorrow lead to a future taht takes away the normal human experiences. The advancement of technology cannot be stopped, but I believe eventually there will be regulations placed on the advancements. People fear what the cannot understand and I definitely now fear technology and I sure don't understand it. The movies Eagle Eye, Pulse and other horrible science fiction movies didn't scare me, I actually laughed them, but this Technocalyps Part 1 definitely did the job.