LONGECITY

Hi

I want to build a nanotechnology museum one day. What would have this museum ?

--Jon

Nano scale molecules and atoms designed according to the "known" laws of physics.

It'd be so tiny, I couldn't fit in the door. What a rip.

It'd be so tiny, I couldn't fit in the door. What a rip.

I didnt know this either until it was too late...

The museum will be a gravestone, with the inscription, "They tore themselves apart with forces beyond their understanding."

Homo sapiens, 2M B.C. - 2020.

R.I.P.

Michael,

Nanotechnology could be devastating if something goes wrong, but arrival of artificial intelligence doesn't help either. We'll wait and see.

Nanotechnology could be devastating if something goes wrong, but arrival of artificial intelligence doesn't help either.

AI is potentially even more dangerous, but it can also completely solve the problem if executed correctly. An AI with nanotechnology is like, more powerful than all mythological gods put together.

We'll wait and see.

I'd rather not, we should take an active approach to lower the risks before they actually occur, even if we can only lower them by 0.0001%, it's a bigger deal than becoming a Ph.D or making a million dollars. That's how existential risk looks from a utilitarian perspective.

Michael,

I agree with you. Currently I am busy with college battling programs and school work. As these decades progress to pass, computers will be everywhere.

One of my friends (he supports evolution) doubts computers can think like humans since they execute only orders without ever evolving. Thus, he claims these computer machines might have extraordinary skills, but because they cannot evolve as we humans have from chemical reactions, etc.; they cannot think like us consciously or whatever we have that makes us so intelligence. How would you defend this case? I told him the nanotechnology hardware for computers is arriving, thus, that wouldn't be a problem to run quadrillion calculations. I also claimed that we would be able to imitate the brains function on a software computer. Yet , he still believes it will never be possible. How can someone claim something like that when he doesn't have any evidence that it can't happen?

It should happen. It would give us something better to do... Life would be a whole hell-of-a lot more interesting; until of course, it was gone.

Hmmm...sounds like we need some kind of Truth Machine. Hop to it Pete!

We're so screwed. I mean christ, it only takes *one* renegade self-replicant (with luck) and bye-bye humanity.

With the introduction in nanomedical applications in the next decade we will be able to spread to the moon and mars with relative ease. If the earth goes to grey mush at least humanity will survive on its colonies.

Humans think the way we do because we have millions of synapses firing off ever second. Each neuron responding to signals from neurons around it. This massive jumble of seemingly random responses forms the basis for creativity and intelligent thought. The same can be done with nanotechnology.

AI is potentially even more dangerous

"... I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..." [lol]

I'm sure one day the Smithsonian will have a big section devoted to the history of nanotech. They just better have a display where they needle Scientific American Magazine for the late 20th century article comment about nanotech boosters being like "cargo-cult believers!" lol If I were rich I'd like to establish a "Museum of the Future." It would be dedicated to promoting futurist thought (positive futurist thought) and showing people a good time in the process. One day I want to visit the science fiction museum in Seattle. It sounds very very cool.

John Grigg

bobscrachy wrote:
With the introduction in nanomedical applications in the next decade we will be able to spread to the moon and mars with relative ease. If the earth goes to grey mush at least humanity will survive on its colonies.
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LOL Those colonies of humans in space will survive up until the point the grey goo goes looking for them...

me too. If I would be rich, I would like to build libraries or museums, to entertain people, to inform them and influence them. Every museum would have its philosophy and its world.

here is one of my project:
http://future.wikia....turology_School
here is my profile:
http://future.wikia....iki/User:Jonano

any idea to improve it ?

--Jon