Module 12

            This was a good article that was very interesting. In the first page he talks about the two different ways that computers could take over, one is us incorporating robotics into our life to replace human parts and becoming more and more dependent on them.  The second is willingly letting them take over, by letting the computers/robots do our jobs and rendering the human species as we know it useless and pointless. What would you do if you never had anything you had to do? The first one I can’t help but think about how we already are dependent on computers and robots so to speak. I mean try and take away a teenagers phone. I’m sure it would cause quiet the uprising. What happens as technology gets more and more advanced?

            GNR is genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. The author is afraid of this because one, the robotic will then be able to build themselves. Two, they can cause a whole class of accidents and abuses. Third, it won’t require large facilities to run these machines. This is a problem, because if we are able to create a robot that has the capacity to think for itself then what is to stop it from creating a robot armor, I realize how science fiction that sounds, but in the past we have done things that we thought were only science fiction.

            It almost feels like we need to take a break from creating new software for a little while get ourselves caught up on what we have now. We need to make sure that everyone is ready for the next stage of robotics and computers, before we start creating new ones. Unfortunately I doubt that will ever happen. With all the companies competing against each other the think of the greatest newest thing. They aren’t going to want to take a break and lose out on profits.

            People by nature want to always grow and be more powerful, the author shows this by describing what it is like to hold and use a nuclear weapons and the power you feel when you fire one, and you feel invincible. Like nothing can stop you. Just like a drug power can drive you to change to become something else then you always were. So is all of this a real concern? I would say yes in our lifetime maybe not but I would say in the future it is possible.