Google is like the worlds collective memory, a step closer towards artificial collective consciousness?? Or can internet already be called an artificial collective consciousness?
'Google it' is common lingo now, it is taken for granted that everyone knows/can know what's on the Google already and we have these smart interfaces called mobilephones to tap into it. So far it replies to a question thrown at it, pretty sure it's not long when it starts answering questions that just arise in our mind, maybe using an advanced BCI*. Who knows? Google knows, yes the collective consciousness knows.
It would be even funnier if it replies via a reverse BCI and not through our normal senses. But that will be scary, imagine a computer being capable of planting an idea in your head and imagine that computer being controlled by an evil mad scientist.
Jokes apart, imagine everyone being capable of finding answers to any question that arise in their mind (as long as it's already available on the internet) will it cripple creativity? will it make us ultra dependent on the internet? will 'wisemen think alike' be rewritten to 'everyone thinks alike'? or are we just rediscovering something that have been long forgotten? perhaps this is the oneness all religions been preaching about?
I genuinely believe it might catapult our development as a species, because the chances of rediscovering and reinventing something will be negligible; and finally we'll be on our way to be god-like but again the term 'god-like' is relative/subjective, pretty sure we are already god-like to a man from the 1st decade.
*Google it
'Google it' is common lingo now, it is taken for granted that everyone knows/can know what's on the Google already and we have these smart interfaces called mobilephones to tap into it. So far it replies to a question thrown at it, pretty sure it's not long when it starts answering questions that just arise in our mind, maybe using an advanced BCI*. Who knows? Google knows, yes the collective consciousness knows.
It would be even funnier if it replies via a reverse BCI and not through our normal senses. But that will be scary, imagine a computer being capable of planting an idea in your head and imagine that computer being controlled by an evil mad scientist.
Jokes apart, imagine everyone being capable of finding answers to any question that arise in their mind (as long as it's already available on the internet) will it cripple creativity? will it make us ultra dependent on the internet? will 'wisemen think alike' be rewritten to 'everyone thinks alike'? or are we just rediscovering something that have been long forgotten? perhaps this is the oneness all religions been preaching about?
I genuinely believe it might catapult our development as a species, because the chances of rediscovering and reinventing something will be negligible; and finally we'll be on our way to be god-like but again the term 'god-like' is relative/subjective, pretty sure we are already god-like to a man from the 1st decade.
*Google it
