Are We
Entering a New Middle Ages
Are We
Entering a New Middle Ages
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/2359-new-middle-ages-english.htm
آیا به قرون وسطای تازه ای وارد می شویم
http://www.ghandchi.com/2359-new-middle-ages.htm
Four years ago,
a scientist/engineer who is the
coauthor of the book entitled "New Variant to Meet Human Needs" (1), told me
that after the promises of genetics (2), and artificial DNA (3), not
materializing, it seems like we are entering a New Middle Ages following the
peak of Information Society of the 1990's. As we know, Middle Ages followed the
era of growth of science and technology of Ancient Greece and Rome, and it
lasted for a 1000 years. I think this is a good question to ask but I do not
believe we are entering a New Middle Ages. It seems to me that our expectations
for biology were mistaken because biology does not fit in a digital model (4),
and therefore we should rethink our futurist visions as far as biology is
concerned (5). Nonetheless anything that can be digitized, still follows Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns and our expectations for exponential
change are not misplaced for such technologies (6). Even in medicine which
relates to biology, although genetic modifications to cure cancer have faced
serious barriers, but we are witnessing tremendous advances in robotic surgery
for prostate cancer and others, and in the last two decades, we have witnessed
phenomenal progress in CT Scan to identify lymphoma and nuclear medicine for
diagnostics of bone cancer, showing that these technologies follow Moore's
Law. Thus the young scientist noted above also agrees now that we should not
worry about ushering in of a New Middle Ages and instead need to focus on areas
that are readily digitizable. Actually Ray Kurzweil's Response about the Next
Step in Making of an Artificial Sentient Being" (7) that was published three
months ago, best shows what we can expect in the near future.
Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,
http://www.ghandchi.com/index2.html
December 1, 2018
Footnote:
1. New Variant to Meet Human
Needs-An Electronic Book
http://www.ghandchi.com/human-variant-book-english.htm
واریانت جدید برای تأمین نیازهای بشر- کتاب الکترونیک
http://www.ghandchi.com/human-variant-book.htm
2. Genetics Cannot End Death
http://www.ghandchi.com/1420-genetics-death-english.htm
ژنتیک نمی تواند به مرگ پایان دهد
http://www.ghandchi.com/1420-genetics-death.htm
Ray Kurzweil's Response to Genetics and Death Topic
http://www.ghandchi.com/1421-kurzweil-genetics-english.htm
پاسخ کرزوایل به بحث ژنتیک و مرگ
http://www.ghandchi.com/1421-kurzweil-genetics.htm
3. Post-Anthropocentric
Production
http://www.ghandchi.com/332-PostAnthroEng.htm
توليد فرا انسان مرکزي
http://www.ghandchi.com/332-PostAnthro.htm
4. Nanobots or Humanoids
http://www.ghandchi.com/2164-nanobots-or-humanoids-english.htm
نانوباتها یا انسان نماها
http://www.ghandchi.com/2164-nanobots-or-humanoids.htm
5. Modern Futurist Visions in
Retrospect
http://www.ghandchi.com/2224-futurists-english.htm
بازنگری ویزیونهای آینده نگری مدرن
http://www.ghandchi.com/2224-futurists.htm
6. Kurzweil and Biological Path
in Vicinity of Singularity
http://www.ghandchi.com/2230-kurzweil-biology-english.htm
کرزوایل و مسیر بیولوژیک در حوالی سینگولاریته
http://www.ghandchi.com/2230-kurzweil-biology.htm
7. Kurzweil's Response about the
Next Step in Making of an Artificial Sentient Being
http://www.ghandchi.com/2246-kurzweil-next-english.htm
پاسخ ری کرزوایل درباره گام بعدی در ساختن موجود متفکر مصنوعی
http://www.ghandchi.com/2246-kurzweil-next.htm
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