Monday, January 28, 2008

Will we use Computers or will computers use us?

I keep thinking about how every decade computers grow exponentially in capacity and I know that some time in the near future the complexity of the computer will equal that of the human mind. If a computer can process information in the same manner as a human brain, will they eventually acquire human like thought processes? Will they surpass us? Or will we grow together becoming something neither human or computer but some melding of the two?

What if computers become more intelligent than humans? Will they continue to serve us? Or will they rewrite their own programming and become just as diverse as humanity- some hating us and some revering us.

Either way, I hope they remember us fondly.

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