Humans vs. Machines
I am sure most of you have seen the movie “iRobot” with Will Smith, where he saves humans against the domination of the Robots. Now I know this is science fiction, BUT will it always be? I mean, if we think about it, now many people around the world have computers and there have been many experiments with building Humanoids which are robots that look or do certain things that humans also do. A big player in this field is Japan. In japan they have started with the cute looking robot called ASIMO.
Lets start with something scientific. As medical science advances we have seen many electrical implants in sensory organs like your ear to enable (better) hearing to deaf people, or in the retina of the eyes to enable blind people see again. I have a two sided opinion about this. For the one hand its a good thing to enable people with a handicap to live their life normally again. Now dont take me wrong, I know many handicaped people who live just fine with their handicap! Anyway, on the otherhand, I think its an interference in God’s invention! When we overdo this, all humans, who want to, will become cyborgs! Thats not what we want or? at least I dont.
In the Hacker magazine “The Hacker Quaterly” summer edition they described what things you can do with implants in your ear. Those implants would make you be able to listen to special frequencies, and in bad hands (in this case ears) this would not be a safe thing to do. Imagine you and your girl/boyfriend talk about something secret in your own appartment. Now if someone would be able to listen, by some way, to your secret information I dont want to know where privacy will end. This is like making a wardrive and listen to WIFI signals and access your private files on a WIFI network.
I know I am going over the top in some ways, but when technology advances and robots are not controllable how will we, as humans still be what we have always been? I mean living beings made up of flesh and bones and with a soul? I certainly hope we will not go over the top with this kind of technology
