Arjen Kamphuisarjen@gendo.nl

The SingularityFantasy, threat or opportunity?

All Watched Overby Machines of Loving Grace

I'd like to think (andthe sooner the better!)of a cybernetic meadowwhere mammals and computerslive together in mutuallyprogramming harmonylike pure watertouching clear sky.

I like to think(right now, please!)

of a cybernetic forestfilled with pines and electronicswhere deer stroll peacefullypast computersas if they were flowerswith spinning blossoms.

I like to think(it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecologywhere we are free of our laborsand joined back to nature,returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,and all watched overby machines of loving grace.

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Evolution of computers

The question of whether a

computer can think is no more

interesting than the question of whether

a submarine can swim

- Edsger Dijkstra

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Do not confuse!• The possible scenarios leading to a

technological singularity and their probability

• The possible (un)wanted effects of such scenario's on individuals, society at large, the eco-system and the planet(s)

• (Un)wanted does not make (un)likely

pres.gendo.nl/futsing.pdf

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