I'll make this quick. I got to fold some clothes later.
Basically when we talk about the future, there are two kinds of projections. One school of thought said it is bleak. The machine will eventually rule and we *wi[n] cease to exist due to our inability to adapt or to their superiority.
* So you belong to this school of thought.
Another school of thought however suggests that we will rise to our greatness due to our ability to coexist together with the machines.
I belong to the second school of thought. Although it is inevitable for us to produce bad apples. I believe in the goodness of humanity.
George Orwell predicted that in 1981 we will be ruled by the Big Brother. Well, 1981 came and went, yet that monochromatic image of humankind did not happen.
Computers had blossomed ubiquitously the past half a century, even so in the millennium, and yet we see people progress towards the better. Sure, there is in existence the Dark Web for example but in general the survival of the smartest still happening.
Of course there will be a greater divide between the informed and the ignorant but as a whole there is a homeostasis point to everything that's happening around us despite the advancement of the society at large.
There is no denying that we shall have some abnormal deviations, but as a whole there is balance in nature between the forces of good and evil. I believe there will always be a mechanism that will aggregate the preys and the predators. That is a race of arms between the victims and assailants eventually.
I look at my kids and how well they adapt. By and large I believe they will continue to become better. Mopey as my Ver 2.0 is better adapted to the environment as compared to Princess, my Prototype Ver 1.0. One was build f[or] the 90s mold while the other is [] more slick millennial.
What matters is both are swords. Build for different eras. While Princess is a sword made of tempered steel, Mopey is a light saber all because they were provided with different means to acquire knowledge.
Within all these I still conclude that the future belongs to the smart:
“Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.” - John Kenneth Galbraith
As for me, I am now i[s] a position to create knowledge rather than merely being a consumer. I appreciate the attainment of knowledge but as a whole I am more keen to harness it for the purpose of self-indulgence.
I had come to see the day when technology is already passing me to an era where I can no longer catch up with it. Not because I don't know about it but because I don't want to pay that little extra for obtaining the comfort I get from acquiring it.
Thus, in the Technium Enviromnent I had classified myself as a scavenger rather than a hunter. By now I am very SURE that that's I want to be. I rather be a scavenger tha[t] the herd [] get slaughtered by the predators LOL/
I got to go baby...
I'll try to catch up probably after 9:00 pm. Taking Mopey out for dinner, then I send her back. Next week is her exam week. She is need to go back and study at her campus after that.
Bye now.
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