It seems you interpreted me as playing down any cause to worry. I actually really am legitimately concerned about the future of technology. I have mixed feeling about our advancements, utilization, and control of technology especially where governments and large corporations are in the picture.
But the robotic surgeons don’t take over the role of a full doctor, do they?
Do they actually greet the patient and the patient never talks with a human doctor?
Okay, so I just think it is reasonable to believe that people are biased toward their fellow human beings for certain positions and that people will continue to have this bias.
Go to a popular national university and look up some professors. Ask them what they really think about human global population and natural resource sustainability in the long run.
Then, while your at it ask them about how they envision the future.
Also understand that a majority of their opinions very much correlate with the private corporations that pay them.
Look up some of the most powerful individuals on the planet and read their memoirs or public commentary.
I’m not sure the people in power are that godlike or immune from being influenced themselves. I think we need to spread information about the secrecy apparatuses of governments and put pressure in any way we can on those in power. Currently a country is not run from an economy and resources standpoint by 5% of it’s population, much of the remaining 95% is needed.
I don’t think it conflicts with what I said though. The 95% are still need for the power structures that are currently in place. And they spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control people when they could more easily kill people. So I think that supports my position that we are somewhat necessary right now.
Yes, rather in a short term myopic view they still need usfor now.
However, looking through the long term into the future there will come a time of disbandment and probably by a genocidal or technological replacement means.
Probably a combination of the two at the same time.
How about we agree that between a possible then and the certian now we do what we can to make sure that doesn’t happen. And let’s not kill each each other either in the process, okay?