Todays Prime Focus is Sunday Times of India, Mumbai, April 19 2015,Page 19- (P.S. -Screenshot attached at the end of this Post) - The section reserved for talks of inventions, discoveries, scientific studies from all around the world. I always look forward to this section as much as I love reading the Spirituality corner “The Speaking Tree” coz whereas one helps to predict the progress of outer world, the other helps to sort out and progress inner world (mind and matter).
Anyways, todays page is filled with interesting articles… A News bite from Hong Kong showing picture of a Humanoid Robot making expressions on human commands during the Global Sources spring electronics show and this is sandwiched between two other articles – A) “Plus Asana : Rise of Fat Yoga in US” and the B) “ In a few years, 80 will be the new 40” an Interview from Terry Grossman aka the new Age Guru of Longevity! What an Irony!!!!
So....whats the IRONY in that? When I read this page my brain immediately analysed that whereas the Yoga article and The interview for longevity promises increased Life expectancy of human beings in very near future, that too a healthy one, (like I have mentioned in one of my previous blogs… ) we have already started creating the Great Grand Destroyers of those efforts… We can even look at it this way… Maybe , In a way Nature is trying to balance out the over smartness of We Humans to maintain the Ecosystem. Meaning: Even if we succeed in unravelling the mysteries of disease and ageing or are able to overpower natural death, we are somewhere also getting back to square one of self destruction by creating Humanoid Robots; in our yearn, for that Creation SuperGenius!
If you remember this movie “Universal Soldiers”- humans reach a point in research where a Supercomputer could start thinking and functioning on its own aswell as humans were transformed to UNISOL Robots with implantation of programmed microchips in their brains.. which was hacked by the Thinking Super Computer for using them to propagate his species, consequentially spelled disaster for their own creators.
Another such Movie was “X-Men – Days of Future Past” where humans created unbeatable and indestructible fully flexible Robot of interchangeable Fibre technology called Sentinels- to destroy the X-Men Mutants but without realizing the danger to their own species.
There are many more such movies (such as “Chappie” wherein how a machine could be converted to emotional Robot) which as of now entertains us and plays with our imaginations or fantasies in the sci-fi world… but seeing todays’ Newspaper page 19 I have started to realize that the days may not be very far that we might be at the receiving end for our own shortsightedness! If a Humanoid Robot can learn to emote, he might very well learn to think, to feel, to compete, to survive and so on….being naturally the strongest of us all, if HE decides to flourish his own species and wipe off/enslave all other intelligent ones, the Saga - Survival of the fittest will find its way!
We have already created enormous tension by making a Monster called Nuclear Bomb and now created more tension for ourselves to safeguard that Monster from falling into wrong hands… Its said that we must learn from History and avoid repeating same mistakes; but it seems we are disregarding the same in our sole quest to compete with each other ( read countries) paving way for self-created auto-destruction mode!
May Sanity and Good Sense prevail in super intelligent human minds!
Anyways, todays page is filled with interesting articles… A News bite from Hong Kong showing picture of a Humanoid Robot making expressions on human commands during the Global Sources spring electronics show and this is sandwiched between two other articles – A) “Plus Asana : Rise of Fat Yoga in US” and the B) “ In a few years, 80 will be the new 40” an Interview from Terry Grossman aka the new Age Guru of Longevity! What an Irony!!!!
So....whats the IRONY in that? When I read this page my brain immediately analysed that whereas the Yoga article and The interview for longevity promises increased Life expectancy of human beings in very near future, that too a healthy one, (like I have mentioned in one of my previous blogs… ) we have already started creating the Great Grand Destroyers of those efforts… We can even look at it this way… Maybe , In a way Nature is trying to balance out the over smartness of We Humans to maintain the Ecosystem. Meaning: Even if we succeed in unravelling the mysteries of disease and ageing or are able to overpower natural death, we are somewhere also getting back to square one of self destruction by creating Humanoid Robots; in our yearn, for that Creation SuperGenius!
If you remember this movie “Universal Soldiers”- humans reach a point in research where a Supercomputer could start thinking and functioning on its own aswell as humans were transformed to UNISOL Robots with implantation of programmed microchips in their brains.. which was hacked by the Thinking Super Computer for using them to propagate his species, consequentially spelled disaster for their own creators.
Another such Movie was “X-Men – Days of Future Past” where humans created unbeatable and indestructible fully flexible Robot of interchangeable Fibre technology called Sentinels- to destroy the X-Men Mutants but without realizing the danger to their own species.
There are many more such movies (such as “Chappie” wherein how a machine could be converted to emotional Robot) which as of now entertains us and plays with our imaginations or fantasies in the sci-fi world… but seeing todays’ Newspaper page 19 I have started to realize that the days may not be very far that we might be at the receiving end for our own shortsightedness! If a Humanoid Robot can learn to emote, he might very well learn to think, to feel, to compete, to survive and so on….being naturally the strongest of us all, if HE decides to flourish his own species and wipe off/enslave all other intelligent ones, the Saga - Survival of the fittest will find its way!
We have already created enormous tension by making a Monster called Nuclear Bomb and now created more tension for ourselves to safeguard that Monster from falling into wrong hands… Its said that we must learn from History and avoid repeating same mistakes; but it seems we are disregarding the same in our sole quest to compete with each other ( read countries) paving way for self-created auto-destruction mode!
May Sanity and Good Sense prevail in super intelligent human minds!
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