X-Message-Number: 18575 From: Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:45:01 EST Subject: Twist and turn in the near future --part1_11d.c4d7e86.299fe68d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just a thought that might be pertinent. If computing power increases as it has done for the past 2 decades, discounting the accelerating new technologies, computers smarter than man will arrive within the next few decades. Networked they will accelerate their growth and power and utilize nanotechnology to further their development. With the following decade or two the rate of growth becomes exponential until a singularity is approached. After the newly conscious computer intelligence assimilates all human knowledge and forecasts our effect on its future, the future of humans may be in question. One possible outcome would be the extinguishing of all human technology. All cyronic facilities need to be not only self sustaining, but "unpluged" from the inevitable computational singularity. I'm not sure how far in the future this can happen, but it will happen so fast we won't be able to react as it occurs. Just a thought. Jim hughes, MD PhD --part1_11d.c4d7e86.299fe68d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18575