The Future Will Be What We Make It

I was dreaming last night about how humans are changing because of being surrounded by computers and I realized as long as humans are the ones asking the important questions that we will control our destinies. However, if we become lazy and give over all the asking of questions to computer intelligence then we will or might become victims of our own laziness.

To have intelligence once must use it or lose it. It is like with anything in one's life, it is always use it or lose it. Qualities that we use as humans we keep. Those that we don't use we lose either temporarily or permanently. If mankind doesn't continue to use it's intelligence on an individual and group basis it won't have intelligence anymore. If humanity individually doesn't use it's instincts and intuition it won't have instincts and intuition anymore.

So, I would say as long as humans are asking the important questions and formulating the important questions instead of computers asking all the important questions for us, we likely will be more or less in control of our lives throughout the coming Singularity that I consider us to already be in.

We have already reached a point where supercomputers individually are smarter than any one person on earth intellectually. When we reach the point where literally every smartphone on earth is smarter intellectually than its user human then I think we have to be very careful indeed at that point. Also, at that same point (around 2020) we will start to own cars that drive for us. They will likely take us anywhere we verbally or through pushing buttons tell them to take us.

I think the 2020s likely will start to decide whether humans control their futures or they become lazy and let Artificial Intelligence decide all their futures for them. We will all see the direction it will go by how people interface their children with technology. If technology is their friend we might be okay. But, if they are trained to obey technology then we might ALL be in trouble in the short and long run and lose control as humans en masse within 50 to 100 years.