Let me put a new "worrisome" idea into your Trump-addled brains! Quantum computing. If you can imagine a computing world in which computers can literally work at indefinable speeds, doubling and redoubling the amount of "qubit" power it uses -- and still come to coherent answers, you begin to sense and understand the promise of quantum computing.
I only vaguely understand the "science" involved -- computer languages no longer consisting of x's and o's but now x's and o's at the same time and in dizzying combinations. It's akin, in my brain at least, to the many applications that will occur as we get used to 4D technology over 3D. The concept of AI (artificial intelligence of course) now becomes an onrushing certainty. And many experts are worried that all this speech, movement, and applied physics within AI could put even the human brain at a disadvantage.
What could be the result? Perhaps a "factory" that could completely run by itself, self-autonomous and even self-aware. Humans would be forced to create relationships with self-aware robots or they might be forced to serve them (or try to destroy them). What else is possible? Living with robots as equals; perhaps adopting robot replacement parts to extend human life beyond the genome; perhaps learning and teaching humanity to our own creations as they teach robotic essence to us. If you can imagine it now -- changes wrought by quantum computing and even faster computing in the future, can make it happen.
Right now however, our job is to resist!!!
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