Originally posted by Futuretalk:
Positive futurists believe we should not worry about robots taking control of our lives.
Before our silicon cousins develop the ability to out-think us, human-machine merge will become possible, enabling us to transfer their knowledge and superior calculating systems into our brains.
We will become them before they could ever become dangerous to us.
The Internet will eventually end up running the planet and over time our ability to influence it will diminish. Probably our whole monetary system will be the first thing we hand over control of.
And in the case of a computer guided car crashing, who is responsible? Do I lose my no-claims bonus because someone else's software crashes?
But then again if my computer car crashes, I just reboot it and it's as good as new.
Blacknad.
