We got scared

Oberon · 01-28-12, 11:53 PM

Science can save us, yes, and it can destroy us just as easily as that comet. All it takes is one boundary pushed just a little too far and it'll swing back so fast and kick us in the backside so hard that we'll wish for a comet. We've been lucky so far, but after the singularity, perhaps one day we will have to move aside to make way for the better race that we create, the machine race. Perhaps we won't even make it that far, perhaps one day a scientist will create a nanite designed to consume its surroundings and reproduce, and for whatever reason it fails to shut itself off. Within a month or two the planet is grey and we are history.

Science is great, I love science and I look forward to a future with the technology that today we can only dream of, but we have got to be so careful that we don't sacrifice what makes us human in the pursuit of science.

01-28-12, 11:53 PM	#25
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Science can save us, yes, and it can destroy us just as easily as that comet. All it takes is one boundary pushed just a little too far and it'll swing back so fast and kick us in the backside so hard that we'll wish for a comet. We've been lucky so far, but after the singularity, perhaps one day we will have to move aside to make way for the better race that we create, the machine race. Perhaps we won't even make it that far, perhaps one day a scientist will create a nanite designed to consume its surroundings and reproduce, and for whatever reason it fails to shut itself off. Within a month or two the planet is grey and we are history. Science is great, I love science and I look forward to a future with the technology that today we can only dream of, but we have got to be so careful that we don't sacrifice what makes us human in the pursuit of science.