I'm typing out this blog and sending it out to the whole world yet check out the title of the post.
In
my mind it's true. The world has been saved in that we now have, more
and quicker research into health issues, communication systems that can
save lives and many things such as that. OK so much for the good.
The
problems may out weigh the good. The computer has convinced many
people they are smart and competent in their jobs and that's just not
true. They may know how to log on to a computer, do a spread sheet, put
together a barely coherent email but to actually do their job they
don't have a clue. They just follow what is in the procedures they were
taught when they took the job. But learn it, improve it, understand
how it works so they can go beyond it and think unconventionally, and by
doing so maybe contribute something besides a carbon footprint to life
forget it. That would require thinking and the computer has relieved
human kind of that need. Turn on a computer, a TV, a blackberry what
have you in the way of electronic gadgetry and why do you have to think?
You don't. All you do is type in a question and the computer answers
you. You then do what the computer says to do and you're all set.
Perfect robots or cyborgs. Thinking has gone the way of the flint
knife, or the bow and arrow it is obsolete. I feel they don't even
teach thinking or how to be an individual in school, you ask to many
questions make the person that passes for a teacher have to actually
think before answering a question, or if you day dream as a kid, or
maybe your art is not what is considered the norm. Oh well the computer
says we can't have that so you need medication (this generation's
lobotomy) and you spend the rest of your time in school looking at
pretty images on the computer and drooling.
So with the computer
doing all the thinking and medications taking away all free thought
where is the next generation of thinkers going to come from? Or are
they already here, the ones who write the computers programs, the ones
who make you do what the computer says to do. Is a version of the movie
"The Matrix" already here? Only we haven't evolved to the pod stage
yet.
Why would people want computers to think. Artificial
intelligence why? Up until now in recorded history man did the thinking
machines did the work. Why would someone want to change it so that
people did the work and machines thought? The computer does make a lot
of things easier to do. It should be used as an aid to work as a shovel
is used instead of digging with your hands, same for a chain saw over
an axe but not in place of work or thinking. I pity the up coming
generations, where are they going to find their Ben Franklin's, Thomas
Jefferson's,Thomas Edison's? Who is going to lead them to the stars, or
under the oceans if they can't think their way thru anything, all they
can do is follow a computer generated guide.
Hopefully it's not to late.
Bonz
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