The Terminator movies present a pretty crude vision of technology. In reality, there’ll probably be less distinction between human and computer. If computers decide to destroy us, it will probably be from the inside out.

They’re developing cool things with nano-technology and of course that will lead to self-replication abilities no different than organisms. Maybe even more interesting is the ability of the brain to control computers and various technologies that control brain functioning (such as light and sound machines). Furthermore, they’re presently developing technologies that can directly read people’s minds such as detecting the image someone is thinking of or determining the decision someone makes even before they’re conscious of it.

You were writing about some of this in terms of search engines. A search engine is just a process of networking information. The most poweful search engine yet invented is the human brain. The only present limitation of the human brain is that it can’t directly link to other human brains. However, the merging of search engines and social networks is a preliminary stage of future possibilities.

I was thinking there is only one way a system could have no single point of failure. It would have to be a very open and adaptable system, probably something far beyond wires and cables. Also, it would have to possess the ability of self-repair along with diverse redundant functions.

If there was a Skynet of the future, it wouldn’t even look like a computer. Rather, it would look like an organism or even it would operate through organisms. We humans might be the platform for the future Skynet.

Think about that. In order to create Skynet, scientists don’t need to create AI. They can simply piggyback on human intelligence.

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