Originally Posted by
Turtlenecks
Many smart people predict that AI will reach/surpass human levels of intelligence within the next 50 years.
Could you please provide a 1) link supporting that, and 2) please define intelligence in this sense if it is not defined in your source, and furthermore 3) tell us who this person saying this might have been, if he or she now exists.
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Originally Posted by
Kidflash13
More importantly realize that this question pertains to nothing specific meaning feel free to talk about technology or ethics of the future!
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Originally Posted by
Zayex
Totalitarian, bleak, and emotionless society. Earth will most likely be exhuasted of its resources, and corporations will probably have a lot more influence. Oh, and christianity will probably fall.
Originally Posted by
Boredpayne
Christianity's been around for 2000 years and doesn't look like it's going anywhere, I'd say it's a little hasty to assume it's suddenly going to disappear.
This leads us into a quite fascinating topic; are we to become more openminded in the future, or are we heading towards a paranoid society globally following the example of England with its CCTV and US with its reforms after 9/11?
Looking at france we can see a few similarities to what happened in spain when Muslims converted the christian population to Islam, and then later vice versa. How the exact same thing happened in the Americas when Columbus arrived and how now society seems to accept the same thing happening in the middle east. (Mainly concerning about the Second Gulf War, and Hussein's fall.)
Insert; If you do not like the comparison between Gulf War II and what happened in the Americas, please consider the society they lived in and how their (the Aztecs) religious and/or political/ethical/moral/spiritual/we don't really know -beliefs justified human sacrifice, and then add their way of living, something that in my ears sounds much like the Caste in India.
What is it in our actions that promote what we say we strive for, a more fair society, if we do only accept our own opinion and not others, and looking at france where since two years ago women are not allowed to wear anything covering their faces (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_..._face_covering) are we really becoming more openminded?
This thread mainly concerns technology so far, what about the Humanistic progress?