Tag Archives: Science

Think, Man

I have no use for computer-generated “writing” that mimics human speech or thought. Thinking and feeling and understanding, and doubting and planning and weighing and analyzing, are things that people do. Computers can compute and search and sort and react and regurgitate. But the more we rely on computers to attempt to think or feel or understand, the less able we will be to do those things ourselves.

You have to draw a line on science. Unless you like living dangerously. Medical science, computer science, military science, industrial science. Where are the lines?  If you don’t draw them soon there’s no going back. This human doesn’t like the sound of that.

I just don’t understand

I just don’t understand how scientists and engineers can land robots on Mars to collect and preserve soil samples, and can create artificial intelligence to construct a self-sustainable microsystem, but they can’t figure out how to make a nursing home in Fall River, Massachusetts, that won’t burn down and leave a dozen elderly or handicapped patients to perish. Can anybody explain this to me?