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In our future: A cyber-President?
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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
2/19/2007 5:33 PM |
Have you ever wondered what life might be like 500 years in the future? It’s almost impossible, of course, to predict with any accuracy what the future holds, but if science fiction TV shows and books are to be used as a guide, then perhaps we can get a little bit of a peek, no matter how dimly the picture through the keyhole might be.
Computers, of course, will manage the world, and perhaps even human beings as well. If they are not the absolute rulers, then they will be at the very least, absolute regulators, overseeing traffic, medical care, work routines, government, health issues of all types, research, space travel, entertainment, and heaven only knows what else! Those same computers will make it possible for many people to work at home through the Internet. Indeed, many workers are doing that today.
Entertainment will reach new heights of technological innovation. Recent technical achievements may someday lead to a new level of realism in our motion pictures and television presentations. Computer animation may even someday lead to the extinction of movie stars and actors, perhaps even politicians, too. After all, a flickering image on the face of a TV screen is all many public figures are to most of us anyway. Computer-animated personalities are so good today, that soon a computer-generated fictitious character could interact with other such characters in a TV drama, and who would be the wiser? We are almost at that point today.
And from there, a computer-generated politician or fire chief, or cabinet member or even a President, would only be one little step further along the path of technical development. We may all be voting for a whole slate of bogus personalities someday on our election ballots. George Orwell’s world gone mad predictions may not be so far off the mark.
But it may not all be gloom and doom either. The very same technologies could usher in a new age of brilliant scientific achievement, sweeping infectious diseases and viruses from our lives, creating widespread wealth and endless opportunity, creating a society so far advanced over anything we dream of today that we can’t even conceive of such a future now.
At any rate, I sure would like to get a glimpse of the world five centuries from now. It’ll be awesome, no matter which direction the future ultimately takes us. |
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Re: In our future: A cyber-President? |
By Ray Cates on
2/19/2007 6:10 PM |
| The way to gage what 500 years from now will be like is to look back 500 years, notice that back then things were mostly pulled around by horses. People were reading back then quite a lot. Most towns had several newpapers, reading was honored and considered very important. Now schools do F-Cat, and there are so many more things to do. I think that computers may not be the horse of the future. There will be things very different then, and we probably can't imagine how very different it will be. I think that people may not even know what a computer is in 500 years. I hope they read books and newspapers then. I hope schools go back to the purpose of educating children by then. |
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