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1. Evil ConservativeSalvaged from archive22 Aug 2006, 21:26
   I think , is the inability of the human mind to correlate all it's contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in it's own direction, have hitherto harmed us little: but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
2. Rocker KidSalvaged from archive22 Aug 2006, 21:48
   Humans use roughly %7 of our brains. It was said Einstein used %9. It's said you can wake up in the morning and decide you wanna do somthing and just do it. No matter how extreme like you wake up and decide: "My life is boring, I ought to start a band and go to the top." Well a little while later you can be climbing the charts while critics call you the next Zepplin.
3. crazyjoeSalvaged from archive22 Aug 2006, 23:50
   :o never seen this side of EC deep posts 8)
4. longbobSalvaged from archive23 Aug 2006, 06:05
   I don't agree. You talk about the collective mind but in reality each mind is individual and cannot hope to possess all knowledge. People get old and die and knowledge of past things dies with it. Interesting concept though. Longbob.
5. Snuff.Salvaged from archive23 Aug 2006, 06:29
   I don't agree. You talk about the collective mind but in reality each mind is individual and cannot hope to possess all knowledge. People get old and die and knowledge of past things dies with it. Interesting concept though. Longbob. I think Evil was referring also to the other, more literal side of the coin: when science unlocks such secrets as should surpass our current existence (as in AI, bio-engineering etc.), the people will not allow it, and will be crushed beneath it or overwhelm it and throw ourselves back a millennia or so. Do a Wiki on "technological singularity". That, my friend, is some scary shit. Alternatively read "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. I personally, for the most part, disagree with you Evil. I don't feel that, when the time should come, such revelations will be particularly brazent or revolutionary. They will creep up on us in the same way that the media and information technology has over the years. But I will concede that in the greater scheme of things an apocalyptic scenario of social and ecenomic upheaval is JUST as likely. Whatever the case, good post sir!
6. longbobSalvaged from archive23 Aug 2006, 08:41
   People fear the unknown, particularly so with new technologies so if they are merely aware of a new technology without understanding it then naturally people harbour objections. I remember learning about the Luddites of the 1800's back in school. They were technophobes back in the day who smashed up new fangled textile machinery. These days no-one gives a thought over antiquated machinery. Technologies come and go is my point and by the time a certain technology eventually becomes widespread and in common use then people will already be fretting over the next big thing that's on the horizon. Longbob.

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