(December 6, 2009 at 4:22 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Ok, there are some elements in it that sound probable. But considering it is all in the future which up till now has very poorly been anticipated by mankind so far, why make it into a religion? Like if there's no god why not become gods ourselves. Is this the Platonic mental virus going haywire again? As long as our immunity against that virus which has brought us nationalism, fascism, communism, theistic fundamentalism and much more is still low, I prefer my two feet on the ground above futuristic flatulence and remain very suspicious of certain signs of fanatism that generally precede war and destruction.
How on earth is a futurists theory a religion?
The future has been poorly anticipated because there hadn't been nearly enough time spent plotting technological growth, now we can see a number of probable paths depending on certain failures and achievements. This is the path concerned with one particular event, the merger of man and machine.
Nobody is saying this is going to happen, or even that it is likely, but it is an interesting thing to contemplate, a situation that could fundamentally change the entire meaning of our lives and the future of our species as well as what it means to be human, and the realization of this scenario is in no way impossible, in fact it is in part inevitable.
As for your assertion that speculating the future is in any way linked to poisonous ideologies, fascism and fanaticism, frankly you're talking shit.
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