once we reach a technological singularity and there's nothing else to invent or improve what will we do? Will humans get bored and just cease to exist?
2007-01-16 04:18:42 · 24 answers · asked by AL IS ON VACATION AND HAS NO PIC 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
From where have you got the notion that technology will ever cease to advance?
The concept of advanced races (usually of aliens in sci-fi movies) somehow dispensing with all technology and just becoming "super-brainy" and controlling everything by thought is probably the only hypothesis that comes anywhere close. But it doesn't seem to be working like that here on Earth... technology seems to be encouraging less thought rather than more... e.g. calculators rather than working maths out in your head, spell checkers rather than having to remember how to spell words correctly.
Perhaps a more likley scenario is that technology becomes so advanced and intuitive to our every need (and self-building and -repairing) that humans give up thinking altogether and become little more than mindless blobs of flesh constantly being fed and cared for by machines like so many new-born babies.
2007-01-16 04:21:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
That will be the day of days for Humanity. We will stop the drive to generate income just for the sake of haveing more. We will realize the paper and shiny coins are no more of value than a grain of sand, but we will also realize that the single grain of sand is of more importance than any thought or idea or achievment that a human could ever accomplish.
We will look inward then outward and see the injustice towards other Humans that we are all a part of becuase of our inactions. The hungry one will be fed, the sick and infirmed will be attended to rather than turned away. The thirsty will have fresh clean water.
Or we will go to war over the sand and in the doing destroy Humanity.
Choice is what we make of it.
2007-01-16 04:34:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we will reach that point. If we do, it will be time to go on to the next great adventure: the life of the mind. When we can have material prosperity with essentially a wave of the hand, then we will cease to value material things, and concentrate on the mind and the soul. Personally, I think these two or three different points of view on human development need to work in tandem.
2007-01-16 04:28:14 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You referred to a technological singularity if you now the theories that this refers too than you already know that neither involves us getting bored, just in case you don't one theory is technology will destroy use, and the other is we will become super intelligent.
In neither case do I see us getting bored. We'll either be fighting a losing battle against our own technology, or we'll be working on even more technology.
2007-01-16 04:51:59 · answer #4 · answered by lolkid_98 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we will ever reach a point in time where there is nothing else to invent or improve. People and conditions of the world are always changing and evolving and we will need to find new ways of accomodating these changes.
2007-01-16 04:27:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We may go the way of the Roman Empire. Ancient Rome was far ahead of its time and had amenities and technology that would not resurface for many hundreds of years after its decline. The Empire fell, and we in today's globally meshed society may very well go the same route, but on a much grander scale.
2007-01-24 03:57:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is nothing as an end to advancement or technology.
man invents or improves on basis of his needs and greeds . man's needs are unlimited, and always increase with time , so the is no scope of an end to science and technology.
even if the needs of man exhausts, his greeds never do.
inthe last years of the eighteenth cent. , people thought that there was no more improvement in science possible.
but then they discovered electricity
by the end of the nineteenth cent. again people thought there was no scope of improvement, but then they discovered biotechnology.
now at the end of the 21st century, again man discovered the wonder called quantum physics
2007-01-23 18:15:07 · answer #7 · answered by nardz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll assume your hypothetical situation can exist. We can move in and out of different dimensions, go anywhere, make anything at the drop of a hat.
I suppose art will be very important.
We may need to create a new universe since ours will die a heat death in a few tens of billions of years. That will give us somewhere new to explore. Some humans will probably always be seeking the new.
2007-01-16 06:50:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as there is human on this planet, I don't think there will be a day where technology will stop. People are always progressing and you learn till the day you die. Even though there are no more new inventions but there will be people who will re-invent the current things to imrprove it to a much better working condition.
2007-01-16 04:25:28 · answer #9 · answered by Calvin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the late 1800's the US Patent Office declared that everything that could be invented was and that they would not be issuing any more patents...and BOY were the wrong. Technology will ALWAYS find a way to advance as long as mankind continues to use it.
2007-01-16 04:23:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋