The next big event in human history-- the extinction of mankind through the operation of unbridled, many-directioned folly-- will probably go unnoted and unmourned. Whether global warming-- earth heating up like a microwave-- famine or plagues, will we become long-term victims of our own short-sightedness? Even if we leave as our lasting heritage sentient robots and computers able to remain intact in an oven-like atmosphere, it seems doubtful that these machines will take the time to sit down at the keyboard and write an obituary to late, great mankind's demise.
Such as: " 'Homo sapiens' means 'wise man'...The logic of that, no robot can understand!...No matter how long he stayed in college...His ignorance always exceeded his knowledge!... To short-term thinking men were bred.. So, in the long run, they're all dead!"
Maybe robots will build a museum on the Moon for Man, carve an obit on the front, and go home to the Earth they inherit by our demise. Comments?
2007-04-13
09:40:27
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John (Thurb) McVey
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