The way things are going I envision a day will come when only robots will have jobs. Where that leaves us humans in the big picture is disconcerting. Think about it. Robots building other robots. Computer software that can create software in of itself for other computers. Cars that can drive themselves. Planes that fly themselves.
Body parts are already being replaced by electronically driven limbs wired to the human brain. Could brain transplants themselves be far behind?
According to 'Extreme Tech' this may not be as ridiculous as it first seems. July 1, 2013: A bold project has just been announced which seeks to achieve the first human head transplant. Code-named HEAVEN, for Head Anastomosis Venture with Cord Fusion, the effort is being led by Dr. Sergio Canavero, from Turin, Italy...
Robert White, from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), transplanted the head of a monkey in 1970...
At larger issue isn't whether or not we will have jobs in the future. Rather we should ask ourselves will we even have a place within the universe's (God's) ever expanding evolution towards greater intelligence? Or will us humans become just another step along the way much like other creatures that came before us and exist beneath our human capabilities? By we creating these so-called artificial intelligence machines, will we one day be looked upon as obsolete carbon based units that wear out all too quickly and can't be updated as they?
Yesterday's fiction... today's reality
As ridiculous as this may sound so was the unheard of technology presented to us in 'Star Trek'. Things like cell phones, talking computers, lasers, big screen TVs and so much more which we now take for granted by our everyday use of them. If that be the case concerning these Sci-Fi 'Star Trek' movies, why not this be possible as well?
Before you write me off as being plain nuts, consider this. These workers could have never imagined 100 years later they could be replaced by robots either.
2009
Imagine, if you will, what will be possible over the next 100 years and what role we humans will have. It certainly should give us reason to pause and give some consideration to it, don't you think?
The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner
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