Talk about an interesting depiction of the future. A future where all the greatest minds of science live in one place. This is the premise of "Eureka" where strange things happen everyday as a result of the town's many scientists working away to build a better future, mishaps and all. While it makes sense to put these scientists together so they can cooperate I don't think it's a good idea. Such a concentration of important people means a more lucrative target to those would wish to destroy it. Perhaps some of these men and women aren't even here to help us out. Sometimes people fiddle around with things they shouldn't. It seems to be a pervasive though in this second episode of the series.
This episode seems to be oriented to the Tech/BioTech category of this so called future. Walter and his wife Susan were killed in an accident when Walter supposedly "blew himself up". The problem is that people around town have been seeing ghosts along with their devices going haywire from outside interference. The show seems to be hinting that this "ghost" is none other than the dead Walter. This brings up a myriad of questions with no clear answers. If Walter has indeed cheated death by turning himself into the digital/electrical form he is in now, what does this mean for everyone else? while not as seemingly supernatural as Eureka we may be getting closer to this than people think. We have already started storing our identities on the internet already through services like Facebook and Google +. The idea has already been passed around that sometime in the future with some advances it may be possible for our identities to live on forever in more surreal ways. The gist is that using data from our whole life it would be possible to make a Artificial Intelligence that would use such data to mimic decisions that the individual would have made themselves (Source below).
This brings up the question of what the difference of life and death would be? Of being a natural Human being? In the future will my decaying body be replaced by a lookalike robot who has a computer that is statistically identical to my mind and personality? I sure hope not. I don't believe science should take that road. I have a hard time expecting a piece of metal to replace me one day. Such things are questions of a future unknown.
Ted Talk source link: Adam Ostrow: After your final status update | Video on TED.com
This episode seems to be oriented to the Tech/BioTech category of this so called future. Walter and his wife Susan were killed in an accident when Walter supposedly "blew himself up". The problem is that people around town have been seeing ghosts along with their devices going haywire from outside interference. The show seems to be hinting that this "ghost" is none other than the dead Walter. This brings up a myriad of questions with no clear answers. If Walter has indeed cheated death by turning himself into the digital/electrical form he is in now, what does this mean for everyone else? while not as seemingly supernatural as Eureka we may be getting closer to this than people think. We have already started storing our identities on the internet already through services like Facebook and Google +. The idea has already been passed around that sometime in the future with some advances it may be possible for our identities to live on forever in more surreal ways. The gist is that using data from our whole life it would be possible to make a Artificial Intelligence that would use such data to mimic decisions that the individual would have made themselves (Source below).
This brings up the question of what the difference of life and death would be? Of being a natural Human being? In the future will my decaying body be replaced by a lookalike robot who has a computer that is statistically identical to my mind and personality? I sure hope not. I don't believe science should take that road. I have a hard time expecting a piece of metal to replace me one day. Such things are questions of a future unknown.
Ted Talk source link: Adam Ostrow: After your final status update | Video on TED.com
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