Me too! Me too!

We'll Lead as Two Kings...

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!

Did you know that, despite my generally sunny and silly disposition, I am a big fan of post-apocalyptic, dystopian literature? 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, I LOVE all that stuff! It's so scary, and depressing, and likely to come true! This came to mind when I was watching an old episode of Late Night on my Tivo. Conan was interviewing some scientist who was predicting that within the next 20 years or so, humans will begin melding technology with their own bodies, saying that we as a race will need to accelerate our own evolution with technology in order to solve the problems facing society. He was even advocating implanting a chip in the brain that would allow you to access the internet just by thinking about it, saying that you would then have all the information in the world constantly and readily available to you.

Is this guy out of his fucking mind? Am I the only one who thinks this is an absolutely horrible idea? Has he never seen the Matrix? I know, Einstein is always quoted as saying that he would never memorize anything that he could look up. But Einstein looked stuff up in books. Books, which you own and control, so you know the information is not being changed, and which are distributed by publishing companies which can be held accountable for their content. The internet, by contrast, is about 99% crap which (stupid) people often take as fact, which is why anybody who primarily gets their political views from blogs should probably be barred from voting. Can you imagine if people were relying on the internet for ALL of their knowledge, and if it was IN THEIR BRAINS so they would never actually remember anything? The government would literally be able to rewrite history (even more than they already do), and nobody would have genuine memories to contradict them. Not to mention the whole Terminator scenario of technology taking over and what not. Eeeeeeek!

I'm not terribly worried, though. This scientist cited global warming as an example of problem we would need this sort of technological augmentation to solve, but last time I checked, we already know exactly how to solve that problem. It's just a matter of getting the government to tell oil companies to go suck eggs, and get going with the alternative energy already! Yup, it's that simple, problem solved, Holly for President! Aren't lots of our problems caused by technology run amok anyways? It seems like we should be trying to rein it in, not putting it in our frickin brains!!

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posted by Holly @ 6:49 PM