I saw this fellow,about a week ago on,giving a talk. He was a champion of this game show called JEOPARDY. It's like a GK test of sorts. He was challenged by IBM to compete against a computer,they had developed,to play this game,basically an attempt to put 2 billion-worth things
1-Human brain,cognitive abilities of which took billion years to evolve
2-The IBM computer,which after our share of billion-or-so years of development,took another few billion dollars for development.
Quoting the fellow-"I thought I'd kick the computer's butt". I don't really feel that actually happened. It really was the other way round. Can one imagine? Actually if we can't,we're still living in the stone age. Look around. Everything is entering terabyte territory!,or at least,very soon will!
James Cameron had either seen the craziness our civilization was headed for,19 years ago,with his TERMINATOR,or he was pretty crazy himself. Or maybe he is to be blamed. Probably,his(James Cameron's) vision inspired scientists to move towards the technology from their fantasy land.
There is something I feel I am leaving out. Maybe James Cameron saw Arnold,and thought,"This fellow is no good at expressions or acting.Let's give him the strength of an express train and leave him to do all the 'blowing-up-things' part himself,without which,as it is,there isn't much to it."
Hmm...
But the point being that surprisingly,most of us are holding androids around.We probably have more Galaxies on earth,than in the universe.I do not know if we buy the multiverse theory.But at the rate Samsung is going,we will soon be able to outnumber the total galaxies in existence with the ones in our hands.
1.7 GHz, 3 GHz, 5 GHz,20 GHz, RAMs up to any GB count, graphics processors, what's and not's!
All this that fit into the size of out palm(Okay,a bit bigger perhaps). When will it stop?? Is there any use to it? Yes,you can multi-task,run 99 'apps'(please,APPLICATIONS for heaven's sake!!),probably walk upside down and still run the widgets on the cellphones,as the thing has a gyroscope. But is there one human who WILL require all of it? I wouldn't be surprised if some smart-ass fellow comes up and says...YES.
This is why I love Steve Jobs. he put the entire personal electronics world upside down,then left it to the people to see hell break loose. "Few people just want to watch the world burn". Jobs is gone,Apple is jobless(Quite literally) and we are buying stuff that is making us lesser capable of thinking with the brain. We need all sort of maps to wade through places.
Look at it for a moment..We were gifted with this mind of ours to make things easier for us.And then,we had the brain to make things that would have us lesser to think about. Basically,we are happily reversing the course of nature.
Will our's be the world of the movies?
Will robots start deciding what's good according to their 3,4,5 laws? Will the T-1000s take over? Rather,will we let them take over because it is convenient?
All apologies for sounding cynical. I read a line in the newspaper.. It goes like-
Tycoon deeams of a world of 'Avatars' by 2045
Life-Size Robotic Machines Carrying Digital Copies of Human Brains Raise Hopes Of Immortality
It seems we shall fight to live,even after dying now...
On a funnier note..there's this thing called the Google Glass,right?
It is some contraption like a pair of spectacles,that would be like a computer screen,that also apparently obeys 'voice command'. I still ask the question...WHY?? Anyways,
This is a joke my friend told me a while ago..
What if,you go to a guy wearing this Google Glass and shout the following command....
"FIRST 50 LINKS OF THE SEARCH 'PORN' OPEN IN INDIVIDUAL TABS"....
1-Human brain,cognitive abilities of which took billion years to evolve
2-The IBM computer,which after our share of billion-or-so years of development,took another few billion dollars for development.
Quoting the fellow-"I thought I'd kick the computer's butt". I don't really feel that actually happened. It really was the other way round. Can one imagine? Actually if we can't,we're still living in the stone age. Look around. Everything is entering terabyte territory!,or at least,very soon will!
James Cameron had either seen the craziness our civilization was headed for,19 years ago,with his TERMINATOR,or he was pretty crazy himself. Or maybe he is to be blamed. Probably,his(James Cameron's) vision inspired scientists to move towards the technology from their fantasy land.
There is something I feel I am leaving out. Maybe James Cameron saw Arnold,and thought,"This fellow is no good at expressions or acting.Let's give him the strength of an express train and leave him to do all the 'blowing-up-things' part himself,without which,as it is,there isn't much to it."
Hmm...
But the point being that surprisingly,most of us are holding androids around.We probably have more Galaxies on earth,than in the universe.I do not know if we buy the multiverse theory.But at the rate Samsung is going,we will soon be able to outnumber the total galaxies in existence with the ones in our hands.
1.7 GHz, 3 GHz, 5 GHz,20 GHz, RAMs up to any GB count, graphics processors, what's and not's!
All this that fit into the size of out palm(Okay,a bit bigger perhaps). When will it stop?? Is there any use to it? Yes,you can multi-task,run 99 'apps'(please,APPLICATIONS for heaven's sake!!),probably walk upside down and still run the widgets on the cellphones,as the thing has a gyroscope. But is there one human who WILL require all of it? I wouldn't be surprised if some smart-ass fellow comes up and says...YES.
This is why I love Steve Jobs. he put the entire personal electronics world upside down,then left it to the people to see hell break loose. "Few people just want to watch the world burn". Jobs is gone,Apple is jobless(Quite literally) and we are buying stuff that is making us lesser capable of thinking with the brain. We need all sort of maps to wade through places.
Look at it for a moment..We were gifted with this mind of ours to make things easier for us.And then,we had the brain to make things that would have us lesser to think about. Basically,we are happily reversing the course of nature.
Will our's be the world of the movies?
Will robots start deciding what's good according to their 3,4,5 laws? Will the T-1000s take over? Rather,will we let them take over because it is convenient?
All apologies for sounding cynical. I read a line in the newspaper.. It goes like-
Tycoon deeams of a world of 'Avatars' by 2045
Life-Size Robotic Machines Carrying Digital Copies of Human Brains Raise Hopes Of Immortality
It seems we shall fight to live,even after dying now...
On a funnier note..there's this thing called the Google Glass,right?
It is some contraption like a pair of spectacles,that would be like a computer screen,that also apparently obeys 'voice command'. I still ask the question...WHY?? Anyways,
This is a joke my friend told me a while ago..
What if,you go to a guy wearing this Google Glass and shout the following command....
"FIRST 50 LINKS OF THE SEARCH 'PORN' OPEN IN INDIVIDUAL TABS"....
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