Computers "…will increasingly appear to have their own personalities, evidencing reactions that we can only label as emotions and articulating their own goals and purposes. They will appear to have their own free will. They will claim to have spiritual experiences. And people—those still using carbon-based neurons or otherwise—will believe them."
— Ray Kurzweil (former IBM), The Age of Spiritual Machines
"People are afraid that if they go away for a week, they'll return to find themselves obsolete."
— a Silicon Valley therapist
"But if we are downloaded into our technology what are the chances that we will thereafter be ourselves or even human…On this path, our humanity may well be lost."
— Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems cofounder
| sillyConValley(); is a brand new space where independent thinkers from around the world are meeting for a scintillating forum on where Her Highness Technology is taking us. sillyConValley(); exposes and demystifies "hush-hush" technologies that the general public is kept ill-informed about, including current advances in surveillance and behavior control technologies that governments, global corporations and transnational rogues can and do use on "the general population." That's you and me.
What's more, we'll also take a look at exotic cybernetic technologies that are blurring the distinction between human and machine; and genetic re-engineering technologies that will one day roll out Homo Sapiens 2.0, a new breed of intentionally dumbed-down humanoids who will work 20 hours a day and never ask for "comp time" or sick days. How will your kids like competing with a workaholic crew like that!
Notice how the once-intense concern for human rights of the Nineties has become passé ever since the so-called "war on terror" threw a wet blanket on the public imagination? Well, you ain't seen nuttin' yet. As the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights basically became irrelevant in "the post-9/11 world," human rights concerns will become a thing of the past in the Transhuman Age of the onrushing future, once the artificial intelligence of quantum computing and the indestructible nature of nanotech bodies relegate Homo Sapiens' most brilliant minds and fittest of bodies to the dustbin of history.
You Pro-Lifers and Conservatives, you there on the Christian Right: think the human soul—the psyche—is still sacred? Maybe. But not for long. Her Highness Technology and Her fawning minions will demand that all be sacrificed on the altar of Progress. None shall dodge Her iron-fisted will, her obsession with programmatic efficiency. Once she releases artificial consciousness into the public domain your human soul will no longer be a "highly valued asset." More mind-boggling still, She will even dare to counterfeit the Second Coming of Christ. Worst of all, the ancient prophets including Jesus Himself predicted that almost the entire human race will fall prey to Her Hoaxus Maximus, so illusory will Her occult-fueled sophistries have become.
In the New World Order of today Her Highness Technology rules. She is in the driver's seat, driving us into the future. Our view from the back seat is obstructed, at best. Silicon Valley icons like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates—the Digerati, some call them—are really Her High Priests. Even the global financial and political elite who patronize them are mere pieces on Her Grand Chessboard. She's taking them—and us—for a ride. In the end we will all be caught in Her Web of Deceit. In the end we will all be devoured, digested and assimilated in Her Womb of Darkness, a black hole from which no flesh-and-blood shall ever again be born. One day, all of us will be made obsolete, antiquated by Her progeny: a new breed of cyborgs, nanobots, and artificial consciousness, though now only the province of Gamers and Sci-Fi, yet all too soon to visit a neighborhood near you. Today She's only a greeter in an amusement park. But tomorrow? Her Highness Über Alles!.
Not for the feint of heart or the wannabe celebrity, sillyConValley(); avoids the extremes of mindless conformity to "mainstream thinking" on the one hand, and superstitious speculation about aliens from outer space or terrorist conspiracy theories on the other hand.
sillyConValley(); is hosted by Rob Argento, a firmly grounded realist and lifelong student of both good science and good faith. | read more |
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