Organo Genesis ~ Living Technology

"The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster." ~ Adam Smith

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Unlike the type of technology that we humans have been created with, in all of its natural biological perfection, the technology that we outwardly create into the world reflects our imperfect way of being. Today's human manufactured technology, which grows evermore intuitive, comes with the promise of the end user beng able to do more work. As this march towards complexity drives onward, for the first time humans are at risk of becoming enslaved by the very tools which they have created in very overt yet barely noticeable kind of way. Our robots are forming our behavior to being more task oriented robots ourselves.

Could you imagine the force which created human beings, being enslaved by its own creation?

That's precisely the scenario that's playing out right now on our little pale blue dot, in a microcosmic sense. The above scene from Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is a metaphorical battle between good and evil. Good being that which wants to live and be free, evil being that which fears because it is ignorant. In this thread we'll explore the two types of technology in that context. The 'naturally occurring' human technology that is well established and taken for granted, and the rapidly growing offspring of human creativity, modern technology. All while we sit in the bleachers and watch as the singularity between man and machine approaches.




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