Re: Improving Humanity Through an Automated Workforce..

From: Darin Sunley (darin25@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 12 1998 - 21:01:09 MDT

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>Is a "Star Trek future" a future where humans roughly equivlaant to
today's
>humans in intelligence live in a world full of extemely high
technology? If so
>I consider it a fantasy. A Star Trek level of technology is far more
than
>sufficient to permit massive intelligence augmentation. There is no
reason
>to believe the resulting intelligences will live as humans do.
>

Indeed, Some episodes of Star Trek, The Next Generation actially HAD
massive levels of intelligence augmentation.

They threw it away, and never mentioned it again.

[Talk about staring into the singularity :)]

Darin Sunley
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