From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 03:53:18 MDT
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> Actually, I can see that happening. A future where all kinds of
> illnesses have been fixed, where cryonic suspension is reversible, and
> yet, despite the best efforts of many dedicated people, QWERTY still
> reigns supreme.
You're extrapolating from a world where everything is built around a
constant factor: the human. Given the amount of damage caused by you
having died, and suspended even under optimal conditions (the very
opposite of today's average patient) you need serious nanotechnology to
scan you and/or fix you.
So if you wake up, and the world doesn't look changed much, it's a dead
givaway that the world has changed very much indeed. If you wake up to a
person typing on an keyboard, then it's most assuredly not a keyboard, and
it's not really a person. There is a certain irony when a bunch of bits
has to use rendered buttons to talk to the hardware hosting her.
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