What I want for 2008 to bring is what I want every year, the future; the future dreamed by the millions who came before me. Sometimes it was dystopian visions involving the thought police, fire departments that burned books or post-apocalyptic wastelands teeming with violence. They were cautionary tales which thankfully never came to pass. Other
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My Blues and I were talking about this over New Years as we watched the twilight zone marathon, and discussed what the definition of "mental illness" would be in an artificially intelligent entity.
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Very amusing entry. Michael Chrichton has written a few books about futuristic stuff. The Prey, in which nanobots are designed but go entirely too far and turn the host into some kind of nutcase. The Timeline, in which a machine is invented that could put people into alternate universes at different times in history. That machine eventually went berserk, though. I love technology, but yeah it can be kind of scary too.
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