computer progress

[Monz:]

> Today's computer technology
> is way beyond what anyone 30 years ago thought it would be.

Actually Monz, more than 30 years ago Gordon Moore
formulated Moore's law which prediced quite accurately
where computer technology would be today.

Going back 30 years ago, we see a movie called "2001"
which predicted that computers would be a *lot* more
advanced by now than they actually are.

Interesting idea that humans merging with computers is
progress. For some people, denial of their humanity in
order to be more like a machine is not a form of
advancement. Others can't wait to upload their memories
into a database and then have their supposedly
imperfect flesh and blood slaughtered so they can
achieve what they think is immortality by supposedly
'living' in a computer network.

Personally I see that there is no evidence that
consciousness continues as a result of scanning ones
brain to disk and then commiting suicide and the very
notion is a sign of profound psychosis, perhaps brought
on by the lack of reality from spending too much time
on the computer instead of experiencing what USED to be
known as 'real' life.

I know that there are those that say I am crazy to
insist that real life is different from computer
fantasies, but such are the ironies of life...

- Jeff