Technology is going to eventually liberate the world

[P@triot]

Awesome story about how one man is leveraging technology to enlighten the people of North Korea...

He Calls Himself ‘Free Man’

 

[ScienceRocks]

Maybe when molecular assemblers are invented. Of course, there will be other reasons for government like making sure you can't burn down your neighbors house or for other things like healthcare regulations!

You know things that make sure we don't go back to the fucking wild west or that of somalia!!! You do know that your idea of free man is kind of like being a pirate.

 

[P@triot]

Maybe when molecular assemblers are invented. Of course, there will be other reasons for government like making sure you can't burn down your neighbors house or for other things like healthcare regulations!

You know things that make sure we don't go back to the fucking wild west or that of somalia!!! You do know that your idea of free man is kind of like being a pirate.

Here is old Matthew again - unable to make it in the real world and desperate for those government dollars to keep being thrown at him.

Tell me Matthew - do you have any idea why government exists? I've got $100 right now that says you have no clue that you'll have to resort to researching it.

 

[anotherlife]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

 

[P@triot]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

No really....it's not. It's not hard to predict at all. Technology has completely shrunk the world. In the 1700's it would take months for information to reach across the globe. Now it is literally seconds. With that capability along with audio, video, etc. it makes it really hard for people to lie. This is a prime example above. North Korea, try as hard as they may, are unable to prevent the flow of information into their country. That will ultimately lead to their demise.

 

[SixFoot]

I predict trash services will be null and void once 3D-printers start recycling household trash.

 

[anotherlife]

I predict trash services will be null and void once 3D-printers start recycling household trash.

That is gonna be interesting. Can you recycle your neighbors husband with it too?

 

[anotherlife]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

No really....it's not. It's not hard to predict at all. Technology has completely shrunk the world. In the 1700's it would take months for information to reach across the globe. Now it is literally seconds. With that capability along with audio, video, etc. it makes it really hard for people to lie. This is a prime example above. North Korea, try as hard as they may, are unable to prevent the flow of information into their country. That will ultimately lead to their demise.

Undesirable as they may be, these little isolated countries, like North Korea, Sudan, Nazi Germany, have been the last bastion against the hegemony of a centralized single world power. I think technology is a very bad move considering that it gives the power to a few to not only kill you with justification, but also kill your entire kind/race/tribe/nation with justification all the same.

 

[P@triot]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

No really....it's not. It's not hard to predict at all. Technology has completely shrunk the world. In the 1700's it would take months for information to reach across the globe. Now it is literally seconds. With that capability along with audio, video, etc. it makes it really hard for people to lie. This is a prime example above. North Korea, try as hard as they may, are unable to prevent the flow of information into their country. That will ultimately lead to their demise.

Undesirable as they may be, these little isolated countries, like North Korea, Sudan, Nazi Germany, have been the last bastion against the hegemony of a centralized single world power. I think technology is a very bad move considering that it gives the power to a few to not only kill you with justification, but also kill your entire kind/race/tribe/nation with justification all the same.

Uh...how do you figure? Neither the United States or England has surrendered their sovereignty. In fact, England just took what little they did surrender back with the "Brexit" vote to leave the EU.

Also...where do you get that technology "gives power to a few"? A person who is in severe poverty can learn as much as an elitist attending Harvard thanks to the internet. Technology is the ultimate level playing field. It's information, communication, the preservation of history in real time, and more. It's hard for people in power to deny a drone strike when there are witnesses with iPhone's capturing it on film.

 

[anotherlife]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

No really....it's not. It's not hard to predict at all. Technology has completely shrunk the world. In the 1700's it would take months for information to reach across the globe. Now it is literally seconds. With that capability along with audio, video, etc. it makes it really hard for people to lie. This is a prime example above. North Korea, try as hard as they may, are unable to prevent the flow of information into their country. That will ultimately lead to their demise.

Undesirable as they may be, these little isolated countries, like North Korea, Sudan, Nazi Germany, have been the last bastion against the hegemony of a centralized single world power. I think technology is a very bad move considering that it gives the power to a few to not only kill you with justification, but also kill your entire kind/race/tribe/nation with justification all the same.

Uh...how do you figure? Neither the United States or England has surrendered their sovereignty. In fact, England just took what little they did surrender back with the "Brexit" vote to leave the EU.

Also...where do you get that technology "gives power to a few"? A person who is in severe poverty can learn as much as an elitist attending Harvard thanks to the internet. Technology is the ultimate level playing field. It's information, communication, the preservation of history in real time, and more. It's hard for people in power to deny a drone strike when there are witnesses with iPhone's capturing it on film.

The United States gave up its souvereignty in 1913, one of the first countries to do so. The crook Wilson lamented about it too. Britain joined the EU in 1956 because Hoover(?) threatened a run on the pound, so much for British souvereignty. The United States is one of the last countries that hasn't yet managed to bring its internet content under control. Although several laws target it already, such as the ones that make web hosting services responsible for the contents of their subscribers. Even Wikipedia, the only place that openly states that any truth or encyclopedic knowledge has the right to have many versions, is under fierce attack by schools no less for exactly this objective truthful foundation. So I have a problem to believe that the Internet is a source of learning and a level playing field, on the long run. Looks like the victory of consolidated manipulation under central command against the initial free exchange of ideas and information. Even the technology of the Internet, which is random IP hopping between unordered scattered network nodes, has now been centralized by only a couple of government controlled servers routing the entire US Internet traffic. Same as in China.

 

[SixFoot]

I predict trash services will be null and void once 3D-printers start recycling household trash.

That is gonna be interesting. Can you recycle your neighbors husband with it too?

There's already 3D printers printing live organs, so perhaps some will recycle meat? You could print Bob-Kebabs!

 

[Old Rocks]

Technology is a tool. It can be used for good or evil. However, it has such great potential for good, that we need to advance it as rapidly as possible. Today, as Patriot stated, with access to a basic computer and the internet, a goatherd's son in the most backward part of Africa can become a nuclear physicist. That alone justifies keeping moving on technology.

 

[SixFoot]

Technology is a tool. It can be used for good or evil. However, it has such great potential for good, that we need to advance it as rapidly as possible. Today, as Patriot stated, with access to a basic computer and the internet, a goatherd's son in the most backward part of Africa can become a nuclear physicist. That alone justifies keeping moving on technology.

Google taught me PHP.

 

[P@triot]

Technology is a tool. It can be used for good or evil. However, it has such great potential for good, that we need to advance it as rapidly as possible. Today, as Patriot stated, with access to a basic computer and the internet, a goatherd's son in the most backward part of Africa can become a nuclear physicist. That alone justifies keeping moving on technology.

You're spot on. It can be (and is) used for evil. But it's capabilities to record history, provide information, and facilitate collaboration around the entire globe will be what brings down oppressive nations like North Korea, China, etc.

 

[P@triot]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

No really....it's not. It's not hard to predict at all. Technology has completely shrunk the world. In the 1700's it would take months for information to reach across the globe. Now it is literally seconds. With that capability along with audio, video, etc. it makes it really hard for people to lie. This is a prime example above. North Korea, try as hard as they may, are unable to prevent the flow of information into their country. That will ultimately lead to their demise.

Undesirable as they may be, these little isolated countries, like North Korea, Sudan, Nazi Germany, have been the last bastion against the hegemony of a centralized single world power. I think technology is a very bad move considering that it gives the power to a few to not only kill you with justification, but also kill your entire kind/race/tribe/nation with justification all the same.

Uh...how do you figure? Neither the United States or England has surrendered their sovereignty. In fact, England just took what little they did surrender back with the "Brexit" vote to leave the EU.

Also...where do you get that technology "gives power to a few"? A person who is in severe poverty can learn as much as an elitist attending Harvard thanks to the internet. Technology is the ultimate level playing field. It's information, communication, the preservation of history in real time, and more. It's hard for people in power to deny a drone strike when there are witnesses with iPhone's capturing it on film.

The United States gave up its souvereignty in 1913, one of the first countries to do so. The crook Wilson lamented about it too. Britain joined the EU in 1956 because Hoover(?) threatened a run on the pound, so much for British souvereignty. The United States is one of the last countries that hasn't yet managed to bring its internet content under control. Although several laws target it already, such as the ones that make web hosting services responsible for the contents of their subscribers. Even Wikipedia, the only place that openly states that any truth or encyclopedic knowledge has the right to have many versions, is under fierce attack by schools no less for exactly this objective truthful foundation. So I have a problem to believe that the Internet is a source of learning and a level playing field, on the long run. Looks like the victory of consolidated manipulation under central command against the initial free exchange of ideas and information. Even the technology of the Internet, which is random IP hopping between unordered scattered network nodes, has now been centralized by only a couple of government controlled servers routing the entire US Internet traffic. Same as in China.

Technology goes way beyond the internet my friend. The story that motivated this thread is about a man using SD cards and a drone. The internet isn't even involved in the process. Cell phones also don't use the internet when texting or using various apps (unless the apps are web based such as Twitter). There are peer-to-peer apps. And encryption apps are causing government to have fits because they can't disrupt the communications.

 

[anotherlife]

Nobody has predicted even the PC. So it is impossible to tell what technology will do, free people or enslave people. But if history is anything to go by, then technology will not free people but will enslave people instead.

No really....it's not. It's not hard to predict at all. Technology has completely shrunk the world. In the 1700's it would take months for information to reach across the globe. Now it is literally seconds. With that capability along with audio, video, etc. it makes it really hard for people to lie. This is a prime example above. North Korea, try as hard as they may, are unable to prevent the flow of information into their country. That will ultimately lead to their demise.

Undesirable as they may be, these little isolated countries, like North Korea, Sudan, Nazi Germany, have been the last bastion against the hegemony of a centralized single world power. I think technology is a very bad move considering that it gives the power to a few to not only kill you with justification, but also kill your entire kind/race/tribe/nation with justification all the same.

Uh...how do you figure? Neither the United States or England has surrendered their sovereignty. In fact, England just took what little they did surrender back with the "Brexit" vote to leave the EU.

Also...where do you get that technology "gives power to a few"? A person who is in severe poverty can learn as much as an elitist attending Harvard thanks to the internet. Technology is the ultimate level playing field. It's information, communication, the preservation of history in real time, and more. It's hard for people in power to deny a drone strike when there are witnesses with iPhone's capturing it on film.

The United States gave up its souvereignty in 1913, one of the first countries to do so. The crook Wilson lamented about it too. Britain joined the EU in 1956 because Hoover(?) threatened a run on the pound, so much for British souvereignty. The United States is one of the last countries that hasn't yet managed to bring its internet content under control. Although several laws target it already, such as the ones that make web hosting services responsible for the contents of their subscribers. Even Wikipedia, the only place that openly states that any truth or encyclopedic knowledge has the right to have many versions, is under fierce attack by schools no less for exactly this objective truthful foundation. So I have a problem to believe that the Internet is a source of learning and a level playing field, on the long run. Looks like the victory of consolidated manipulation under central command against the initial free exchange of ideas and information. Even the technology of the Internet, which is random IP hopping between unordered scattered network nodes, has now been centralized by only a couple of government controlled servers routing the entire US Internet traffic. Same as in China.

Technology goes way beyond the internet my friend. The story that motivated this thread is about a man using SD cards and a drone. The internet isn't even involved in the process. Cell phones also don't use the internet when texting or using various apps (unless the apps are web based such as Twitter). There are peer-to-peer apps. And encryption apps are causing government to have fits because they can't disrupt the communications.

This is interesting. Looks like technology fixing a problem that technology created in the first place.

 

[P@triot]

No really....it's not. It's not hard to predict at all. Technology has completely shrunk the world. In the 1700's it would take months for information to reach across the globe. Now it is literally seconds. With that capability along with audio, video, etc. it makes it really hard for people to lie. This is a prime example above. North Korea, try as hard as they may, are unable to prevent the flow of information into their country. That will ultimately lead to their demise.

Undesirable as they may be, these little isolated countries, like North Korea, Sudan, Nazi Germany, have been the last bastion against the hegemony of a centralized single world power. I think technology is a very bad move considering that it gives the power to a few to not only kill you with justification, but also kill your entire kind/race/tribe/nation with justification all the same.

Uh...how do you figure? Neither the United States or England has surrendered their sovereignty. In fact, England just took what little they did surrender back with the "Brexit" vote to leave the EU.

Also...where do you get that technology "gives power to a few"? A person who is in severe poverty can learn as much as an elitist attending Harvard thanks to the internet. Technology is the ultimate level playing field. It's information, communication, the preservation of history in real time, and more. It's hard for people in power to deny a drone strike when there are witnesses with iPhone's capturing it on film.

The United States gave up its souvereignty in 1913, one of the first countries to do so. The crook Wilson lamented about it too. Britain joined the EU in 1956 because Hoover(?) threatened a run on the pound, so much for British souvereignty. The United States is one of the last countries that hasn't yet managed to bring its internet content under control. Although several laws target it already, such as the ones that make web hosting services responsible for the contents of their subscribers. Even Wikipedia, the only place that openly states that any truth or encyclopedic knowledge has the right to have many versions, is under fierce attack by schools no less for exactly this objective truthful foundation. So I have a problem to believe that the Internet is a source of learning and a level playing field, on the long run. Looks like the victory of consolidated manipulation under central command against the initial free exchange of ideas and information. Even the technology of the Internet, which is random IP hopping between unordered scattered network nodes, has now been centralized by only a couple of government controlled servers routing the entire US Internet traffic. Same as in China.

Technology goes way beyond the internet my friend. The story that motivated this thread is about a man using SD cards and a drone. The internet isn't even involved in the process. Cell phones also don't use the internet when texting or using various apps (unless the apps are web based such as Twitter). There are peer-to-peer apps. And encryption apps are causing government to have fits because they can't disrupt the communications.

This is interesting. Looks like technology fixing a problem that technology created in the first place.

That's usually how it goes with technology. A never ending escalation of problems and solutions.

 

[P@triot]

I predict trash services will be null and void once 3D-printers start recycling household trash.

That would have to be decades away because the printers can't just utilize anything. They need specific "filament".

 

[anotherlife]

Undesirable as they may be, these little isolated countries, like North Korea, Sudan, Nazi Germany, have been the last bastion against the hegemony of a centralized single world power. I think technology is a very bad move considering that it gives the power to a few to not only kill you with justification, but also kill your entire kind/race/tribe/nation with justification all the same.

Uh...how do you figure? Neither the United States or England has surrendered their sovereignty. In fact, England just took what little they did surrender back with the "Brexit" vote to leave the EU.

Also...where do you get that technology "gives power to a few"? A person who is in severe poverty can learn as much as an elitist attending Harvard thanks to the internet. Technology is the ultimate level playing field. It's information, communication, the preservation of history in real time, and more. It's hard for people in power to deny a drone strike when there are witnesses with iPhone's capturing it on film.

The United States gave up its souvereignty in 1913, one of the first countries to do so. The crook Wilson lamented about it too. Britain joined the EU in 1956 because Hoover(?) threatened a run on the pound, so much for British souvereignty. The United States is one of the last countries that hasn't yet managed to bring its internet content under control. Although several laws target it already, such as the ones that make web hosting services responsible for the contents of their subscribers. Even Wikipedia, the only place that openly states that any truth or encyclopedic knowledge has the right to have many versions, is under fierce attack by schools no less for exactly this objective truthful foundation. So I have a problem to believe that the Internet is a source of learning and a level playing field, on the long run. Looks like the victory of consolidated manipulation under central command against the initial free exchange of ideas and information. Even the technology of the Internet, which is random IP hopping between unordered scattered network nodes, has now been centralized by only a couple of government controlled servers routing the entire US Internet traffic. Same as in China.

Technology goes way beyond the internet my friend. The story that motivated this thread is about a man using SD cards and a drone. The internet isn't even involved in the process. Cell phones also don't use the internet when texting or using various apps (unless the apps are web based such as Twitter). There are peer-to-peer apps. And encryption apps are causing government to have fits because they can't disrupt the communications.

This is interesting. Looks like technology fixing a problem that technology created in the first place.

That's usually how it goes with technology. A never ending escalation of problems and solutions.

In that case, the best technology development would currently be something that eliminates the human population as commodity.

 

[P@triot]

In that case, the best technology development would currently be something that eliminates the human population as commodity.

Uh...no. Not even a little. You could make the case that "the best technology would be something that eliminates the human element" - but definitely not the human population. You do understand that technology, machines, etc. only exist to serve man. If we eliminate man, there is absolutely no purpose whatsoever for their existence.