Post by Bozur on May 4, 2009 22:57:53 GMT -5
The 5 Most Likely Ways Humans Will Become Obsolete
cracked.com — It's called the Technological Singularity, and it's basically the point at which life as we know it starts losing its *****. More… (Comedy)
---------
The 5 Most Likely Ways Humans Will Become Obsolete
* By: Michael Swaim
* May 4th, 2009
* 123,767 views
From the perspective of the planet Earth, humans have existed for about three seconds. In those three seconds, we’ve made such astounding technological leaps that, at present, we actually have articles written in light, by electricity and broadcast instantaneously all over the globe, complaining about the fact that we don’t have flying skateboards yet.
Compared to the technological progress of, say, the dinosaurs during their tens of millions of years on Earth, we’re the equivalent of a guy who shows up at a party already hammered, shoots a liter of heroin and asks if they have any medical-grade adrenaline kicking around in the back. Clearly, we’re a little impatient when it comes to getting our next hit of sweet, sweet progress.
The problem is, our toys don’t always come with instructions, or even those “recommended for species aged 1-100 million years” stickers. And on occasion we end up with shit that, quite frankly, maybe we shouldn’t have access to. The atomic bomb, high fructose corn syrup, Star Wars III, what have you.
And according to a growing number of science fiction authors and, more importantly, a few actual scientists, that bad habit may catch up with us, and soon. That moment–when technology renders humans obsolete–even has a name.
It’s called the Technological Singularity, and it’s basically the point at which our toys start to consider us toys, and life as we know it starts losing its shit. Here are a few of the ways it could feasibly shake out.
to read more
www.cracked.com/blog/5-plausible-ways-humans-could-become-obsolete/