"sutekiB" wrote:
Why send your body halfway around the Earth on a plane when you can transport your consciousness into a robotic avatar? We may eventually operat e almost exclusively in the metaverse, with robots performing only essential services IRL. That has to be a more efficient way of doing things, right?
I'll see your Mel Gibson, and raise you a Bruce Willis ;)
I liked that movie! The James Cromwell character was going to murder the whole planet because he had too much unchecked power. Hey the military guys tried to kill him and save us from a snowcrash raven type yes? LOL!
Am listening to coast to coast right now with Roger Tolces
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2014/01/29 2nd Half: Private investigator specializing in electronic counter-measures, Roger Tolces, contends that surveillance and harassment is part of the overall takeover of the U.S. by the multinational corporations.
He is talking about how Hoover used his blackmail power to corrupt many senators and take over the US government by tyrants that were not elected by us the people. He says that is happening now. Makes good points. (Maybe like Surrogates, there are real james cromwell types who are too powerful and can hurt a lot of humans) He says now they have technology to put child porn on you in ways you can't control so if they want to eradicate you in the future, no problem. That happened to Roj Blake in the first episode of Blake's 7, they implicated him on false child sex charges.
On your point about robots, was talking to Jim Kennedy (former director of Nasa Kennedy space center) about how star trek will not happen, because its so much more practical to send robots into space than humans, he schooled me. He had a debate with Neil Degrasse Tyson, with Tyson taking the Robots side, and Kennedy taking the Humans side. He said it seemed the robot side had won and Tyson was supremely practical with his economics. But later after the event, Kennedy and Tyson were at dinner together and Tyson had just had some asteroid named after him, and they were talking about it and Tyson said he sure would like to visit his asteroid in person and Kennedy said to the people at the dinner table, Gotcha Tyson! LOL! Its human need to want to go into space, and even with costs being more practical for robots, humans will still want to go and will, so maybe Kennedy will be right. photo 2.JPG
http://weneedourspace.com/
