Silicon valley's machine mysticism. we should have seen the present AI culture coming, revealed in a 4 year old article.
"leading technologists had gathered. one panel discussion, featuring executives from Google and eBay and the CEO of a prominent US think tank, was "Technology is turning the world upside down—what's going on?"
I saw that these people were the evangelists of a new religion, true believers invoking the Promised Land with glowing eyes."
"In this version of paradise, software and technology will find cures for everything, virtual reality will enable us to live our dreams instantly, and ubiquitous robots will serve us and understand us better than we understand ourselves. A new benevolent super-intelligence will solve all the problems we created over the last centuries, from climate change to global poverty, while we enjoy eternal leisure, softly hypnotized by screens, entertained and served by machine slaves."
@holon42 There was an entire ST:TOS episode about this.
@LiberalLibrarian their writers are good at seeing where things are headed. what was their take on it?
@holon42 It was a planet ship which traveled the stars and was run by an intelligent computer. Unfortunately, it was about to plunge against another planet.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/For_the_World_Is_Hollow_and_I_Have_Touched_the_Sky
@LiberalLibrarian ah, another on a similar theme. yes, its possible failures are legion, a gift to story tellers 👍🏼