Monthly Archives: August 2019

Computers are faster than human thinking because computers (so far) are thought machines—they travel paths already trod. Humans (some days) have to actually think, which is arduous (we don’t like it) and slow (are we there yet?). Herein a dilemma … Continue reading →

Whenever you envision a danger in a future, find a way to turn it to good. :- Doug.

Maybe one future is that some of us will become altruists as our primary work. :- Doug.

In one future education will be so important even into old age, we’ll consider the necessaries to be food, clothing, shelter, and education. :- Doug.

In the centralized regime, the kill decision goes to the commanders. In the democracies to the individual pilot. In one future to the bots and algorithms. (Why wouldn’t we—they can assimilate more information, and decide faster.) :- Doug.

This is audacious: to change humanity. This is wrenching: to tell your utter naked whole truth. :- Doug.

What should society be so that in its last years humankind will give its brightest light? :- Doug.

Manual labor may be the first to go to the bots. Now is the time to move humankind to meaning work: the work of finding and making meaning in the weave of life. :- Doug.

One of the greatest gifts an elder can leave is to reach out to the other in utter truth. :- Doug.

Heroic it is to work for generations who may never know your name, nor profit from your efforts. :- Doug.

We live in a present rich in futures. :- Doug.

What’s the outcome of all these futures? Life gets better in all those things that will be done for us, all the better health and increasing life spans, freeing us to work on: meaning; more meaningless chasing after a buck; … Continue reading →

As humans become useless we risk the progression: abandonment, denial of privacy and specialness, segregation, decay, dementia, death. Also perhaps as a species. :- Doug.