Lou Heavner speculates on what matters to a hyper-intelligent machine...
>A dry and reasonable temperate environment and adequate power?
>Qualified maintenance? Anything else?

One pictures a future of all-powerful machines, subjugating humankind and forcing them all to...
RTFM.

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Ken Crater
Control.com Inc.
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We find the human metaphor difficult to avoid.
Have you seen the movie MATRIX? Future machines will live in "cyberspace" - not dependent on any physical power or environment - fault-tolerant (like the Internet). This sounds like far-out science-fiction, I know, but this kind of "symbiotic intelligence" is closer than you
think....

I keep suggesting you read that book, on which my talk at Dick Morley's Chaos/200 was based : The Symbiotic Man - A new understanding of the organization of life and a vision of the future. By : Joel de Rosnay.

Go find it through :
http://www.jimpinto.com/reading.html#DEROSNAY

Cheers:
jim
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Jim Pinto
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San Diego, CA., USA
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