From: Pvthur@aol.com
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 00:00:53 MDT
Oh.... bad grammar. Sorry about that.
My point is this. There will be technologies available to future humans and
other advanced civilizations, if they exist, that we cannot now comprehend.
Those technologies will seem miraculous, at the very least. Eventually, I
speculate, there will exist in the universe the means to render oneself invisible to
contemporary human observation. Given the reach of any post singularity
entity, this seems not only likely, but inevitable.
So all the AI's eventually just die out is your answer to why they aren't
here? Kind of morbid of you.
And about those failed past human civilizations... I suggest they did
survive, as half-starts to what we are now. So what if the Romans didn't make it all
the way to the Internet in one try. We're still here, aren't we? We know what
they did right and what they did wrong and we learned from that and moved on
to the next step, didn't we?
Remember that scene in Planet Of The Apes... Dr. Zeus picks up the paper
airplane and asks what it is. Zira says it's a toy that floats through the air.
Zaus crushes the airplane and says, 'Impossible.'
John
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