The Golden Rule and the better (nano)robots: Love, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of nanoHappiness for All? Many more questions than answers.
Should nanotechnology be for the middle classes' toothpaste, or for water filtration in third world countries? For the rich? For the poor? For all?
Medical cures? Should we use it for birth control? Life extension? Military? CheeseWiz? SpaceColonization? Sustainable metals and high-tech parts? Could it end our excessive human impact on the environment, or could it speed up current cycles of the 'neo-whip manufacturers' refusing to allow the manufacturers of horseless-carriages who are refusing electric car manufactures and solar panel manufactures, who may refuse a 100 year lifespan for certain technologies or other groups of manufacturers refusing to allow precautionary limited life span nanotech?
One nano-shot cured her diabities forever. Now she can eat junk food again. Or- just one expensive nanoshot a day keeps her cancer in remission. The thing is, nanotech seems to be showing incredible results in all areas. On the other hand, it could end all sustainable human life if they misunderstand it or simply continue to use it for disposable iPhones and dildos and the New York lifestyle. It could make Bill Gates quasi-immortal and 'force' the rich to genocide the poor (they had no choice, you know?).
It could end capitalism as we currently know it by transforming the Earth into a clean civilization that, for example, runs on a quantum-nano computer network creating and maintaining responsible technologies, humane birth control, sustainability for all. A humane Star Wars style civilization (after the Empire, of course.) Perhaps a Pax Galactica would be a more beneficial common aim after all. A Star Peace, starting on Earth, but without the Brave New World Huxleyian Mind/Behaviour/Genetic control and lobotomies. Will we find the morals and abilities to transform the Earth and the Solar System into a nanomining colony? Will we reach a Kardashev scale society (popularized by Michio Kaku) progressing to a Type 3 Civilization riding on the wave of the Singularity, reaching immortality in the style of Green Lantern? A star system or dimensional plane for everyone who wants one.
Population measures and control will become the dark issue of the next few decades, whether it be in theory or in practice. Can we reduce population by providing clean water and condoms and nanomedicine? Can we maintain a balance between nanotechnology and organically raised local foods, and withhold the nano-pharmaceutical urge to yank people from their Zen lifestyle? Wouldn't a Zen Being make a better Green Lantern anyways?
Can we learn from homeopathy, sound frequencies, the warning to Jews not to wear mixed (nano) fibres which 'clash' with one's 'bio-cloak' and truly understand the goldilocks zone without waking up too many angry bears? Can everyone live a multiple-century lifespan and design spaceships and colonies to spread out, or will our society be a 'fusion' of those who eat Beefaroni and must live in 'cyber-boxes' hooked up to the iCloud Collective Consciousness with James Cameron's Avatar-like 3D projections synced to our minds, perhaps with multiple templates to choose from or a design your own reality theme a-la Sid Meyer's Civilizations and Second-life lifestyle? All from the comfort of your own 'cyber box' stacked underground or at the Walmart a-la Matrix. Will the Mennonites and the like be 'chosen' to tend the cyber-boxes? Would they resist the urge to pull the plug? Will the manufactures replace/erase our hypothalamuses when full or will the iCloud skillfully store it for us, without glitches, or must we upgrade to the Premium Package? (Basic Package only gets you a 3 year term. A Gazillion credits and you get the Unlimited Package). Maybe this is what's happening right now. Frack, maybe we are in the box and the singularity is an awakening that the Buddha(s) and J.C., alluded to- many rooms in My Father's House.
Heaven is possible- just upload your reality to Quantum Facebook. Seriously? Shouldn't money become meaningless at that point? We already may have missed the chance with the advent of 'rock solid' medical grade plastic in the 1950s. Or, will our elite alpha-tribalism continue, with only the Apex predatory beings in the form of multi-billionares 'pave the way' in blood and nano warfare? Would the Quantum Facebook community use 'Likes' as a social-credit system, instigating an ostracism butterfly effect which takes over, where the number of twitter ideas and followers determines your life support or value in an ancient money-based system? Do we want these as a value system? Didn't someone say we are 'worth much more than that?' Isn't heaven on Earth supposed to begin with the Golden Rule made up of superCompassion?
Can we bring every boy and girl the dream of being a joyful owner of a George Lucas-like, Isaac Asimov inspired friendly robot, Laws included, built to last a hundred years, for everyone? A guardian robot angel, sworn to protect us, not controlled by Global Homeland Security. I'd want it to help me with the groceries and stuff, not arrest me and get all roboCop on my ass. Others, unfortunately for the planet and people alike, may want it to round up the unwanted humans living on the edge of rotting urban centres across the globe, like in parts of Brazil and the Third and Fourth and Fifth Worlds, only this time at the speed of the 'Singularity' gone tribalistic and sadistic.
Possible 'InfoFeed' of the near future: This just in: "Hitachi Robot drones launched a nanovirus on the crowds. Targeted crowd control is now possible within a 100-mile limit. The nanovirus has a fail safe 1 day lifespan as it contains the spliced genes of a fruit fly and Panasonic's licensed artificial cell. Terrorists have control of a hacked Chinese version who are working on extending the range and lifespan of the bio-artificial hybrid Hitachi authorized and government approved nanovirus. Citizens are advised to be on the alert for any odd behavior from your loved ones and strangers alike. Panasonic and Hitachi have no comment."
Do we use something like Asimov's Laws of Robotics or a Golden [(nano) (Robot)] Rule? Or, perhaps a more laissez-faire approach will become the norm, where the nanoDevices/Robots can only be commanded by an owner, and it is that owner or company's owners who take responsiblity within national and state laws, perhaps subject to same laws as consumer safety electronics or gun registration. Lawyers everywhere are standing by. Robot accident at work? Robot accident at home? Robot accident in space? Nanorobot accident in the environment? In the lunchroom? "I had no idea Bob was a nano-terrorist, he seemed so nice. And to think, he was putting nanotoxins in our coffee. They say he was a corporate spy for the competitor. You never know about people, right?"
Or, this could be you in court one day:
"I don't know, your honor. My roboCompanion squeezed my girlfriend's wrists so hard it severed them. It was just trying to refill her coffee cup when it suddenly changed it's routine. And then it injured my children when it was changing their diapers while I was just taking a nap. I swear, I think it was my ex-wife who's behind it. She must have got her new boyfriend to hack my roboCompanion in order to make it look like I did it. I think I'm being framed. Unless, maybe it's just a manufacturers' glitch? Any hand squeezing robot problems out there, your honor? I'm sure a lot of them go unreported." The Robot manufactures will certainly 'apply' their pressure on all the proper parties. Will the Mafias of the world be ready to lay down their power trips for a 'quantum-nano-Utopia?'
Our ethics of today will seem like a joke. (Hopefully). Our Big Mac/Beefaroni lifestyle is only going to remain possible if we come up with a way eat the same food as the blue-haired girl in Tron does. And it had better quick if you 'choose' that route. For now, we need to find a way to grow and drink organic tea and launch this spaceship Earth from the ethics of below, to the ethics of above. Clean water and food, local and sustainable areas are the priorities. (People may have to relocate from New Orleans-like areas...in orderly fashion, yes? An open-sourced 'quantum-democratic socialism' with caps on maximum wealth, reducing the drive for Apex predatory behaviours.
Let's begin to use our current and traditional technologies to their moral fullness and capability, such as maintaining our ocean stocks through databases linked to the internet in order to sustain and grow healthy and natural fish populations, while we fish only in certain areas and any stray fishing boats getting out of line are instantly posted on a database and publicly available and automatically fined with quick and efficient revoking of licences and prison terms for repeat offenders. All ships stream their catches on the Internet in the same manner. The public and the authorities will click to see Forest Gump Inc's shrimp boat online, and not having to chase down shadowy mega fishing boats which are out of site and out of mind. If we automate/robotize all the jobs at an exponential pace then the profit sharing should go into the ex-workers, before the system out-sources the workers through death squads or viruses and the powers claim plausible deniability. Too late, you say? Oh, oh. Time for Psalm 91.1.
Or, conversely, will we have an even more divergent or multi-'ethic' or multi-'moralistic' society of transhumanists forging their path at all costs, versus a more traditional, agrarian based society with intolerance the order of the day? An 'either/or' society with limited shades of grey, quantum society and Zen gone by the way side, like the Jesus paradigm after the Gospels were hidden and the Apostles missing in action, (only to resurface with their friends at the last minute)?
Or perhaps we will have even more immature and mis-interprating folks in the Bible Belt areas, trying to curb the devilish tide against their children, who normally interact with robo-Bible Companions but through repression are now "getting into" and hacking them into roboSex dolls , or obtaining a 'cracked' version of "Annie the Android Nurse" by the Toshiba Corporation and effectively transforming her into someone's personal sex slave. Or they'll just go to the big city and sign up for a legitimate version, no longer welcome back home.
When it comes to all these new and amazing promises which the nanotech and other singularity technologies hold, I wonder, what will a bunch of 'science-based' and 'business-based' men with boners choose?
Trust me, in 2030, we'll just be happy our robo-companions are giving us a blow job and not a nanoAttack force and taking away most of our jobs at a rate that collapses the system. It seems to be heading in that direction, unfortunately. The geo-cidal trends may force us to come up with a dangerous geo-engineering project essentially tested in a kid's bathtub, but collectively agreed to by the FDA-s of the world. OMG, we had no idea that nano-metals kill fish? It's not just copper and mercury? The materials were tested for a short time in isolated environments. Sorry about all the dead or toxic marine life. Honestly, it's not a conspiracy, we're just so exited about all these new technologies and business opportunities, I guess we were just acting like anxious monkeys, not scientists in white lab coats.
DDT and Asbestos will seem like mild cases of the flu. Oh, well, hopefully you'll keep buying our nano-toothpaste and GMO products, right? What's that? You want an organic piece of fruit? We're sorry, we went to school for nanotechnology. Can we offer you some neo-GMO bananas fortified with, oh heck, every vitamin and mineral with secret flavouring and enhancements in unbalanced manufactured portions? Don't be concerned, really, studies were made to show they're good for you. You googled it? Oh, you shouldn't do that- you can't believe what you find on the internet.
Perhaps the land and the sea will have to lie fallow every once and awhile before it does so like it did after the Roman Empire collapsed. Perhaps that's the back-up plan.
Possible 'InfoFeed' of the near future: This just in: "Hitachi Robot drones launched a nanovirus on the crowds. Targeted crowd control is now possible within a 100-mile limit. The nanovirus has a fail safe 1 day lifespan as it contains the spliced genes of a fruit fly and Panasonic's licensed artificial cell. Terrorists have control of a hacked Chinese version who are working on extending the range and lifespan of the bio-artificial hybrid Hitachi authorized and government approved nanovirus. Citizens are advised to be on the alert for any odd behavior from your loved ones and strangers alike. Panasonic and Hitachi have no comment."
Do we use something like Asimov's Laws of Robotics or a Golden [(nano) (Robot)] Rule? Or, perhaps a more laissez-faire approach will become the norm, where the nanoDevices/Robots can only be commanded by an owner, and it is that owner or company's owners who take responsiblity within national and state laws, perhaps subject to same laws as consumer safety electronics or gun registration. Lawyers everywhere are standing by. Robot accident at work? Robot accident at home? Robot accident in space? Nanorobot accident in the environment? In the lunchroom? "I had no idea Bob was a nano-terrorist, he seemed so nice. And to think, he was putting nanotoxins in our coffee. They say he was a corporate spy for the competitor. You never know about people, right?"
Or, this could be you in court one day:
"I don't know, your honor. My roboCompanion squeezed my girlfriend's wrists so hard it severed them. It was just trying to refill her coffee cup when it suddenly changed it's routine. And then it injured my children when it was changing their diapers while I was just taking a nap. I swear, I think it was my ex-wife who's behind it. She must have got her new boyfriend to hack my roboCompanion in order to make it look like I did it. I think I'm being framed. Unless, maybe it's just a manufacturers' glitch? Any hand squeezing robot problems out there, your honor? I'm sure a lot of them go unreported." The Robot manufactures will certainly 'apply' their pressure on all the proper parties. Will the Mafias of the world be ready to lay down their power trips for a 'quantum-nano-Utopia?'
Our ethics of today will seem like a joke. (Hopefully). Our Big Mac/Beefaroni lifestyle is only going to remain possible if we come up with a way eat the same food as the blue-haired girl in Tron does. And it had better quick if you 'choose' that route. For now, we need to find a way to grow and drink organic tea and launch this spaceship Earth from the ethics of below, to the ethics of above. Clean water and food, local and sustainable areas are the priorities. (People may have to relocate from New Orleans-like areas...in orderly fashion, yes? An open-sourced 'quantum-democratic socialism' with caps on maximum wealth, reducing the drive for Apex predatory behaviours.
Let's begin to use our current and traditional technologies to their moral fullness and capability, such as maintaining our ocean stocks through databases linked to the internet in order to sustain and grow healthy and natural fish populations, while we fish only in certain areas and any stray fishing boats getting out of line are instantly posted on a database and publicly available and automatically fined with quick and efficient revoking of licences and prison terms for repeat offenders. All ships stream their catches on the Internet in the same manner. The public and the authorities will click to see Forest Gump Inc's shrimp boat online, and not having to chase down shadowy mega fishing boats which are out of site and out of mind. If we automate/robotize all the jobs at an exponential pace then the profit sharing should go into the ex-workers, before the system out-sources the workers through death squads or viruses and the powers claim plausible deniability. Too late, you say? Oh, oh. Time for Psalm 91.1.
Or, conversely, will we have an even more divergent or multi-'ethic' or multi-'moralistic' society of transhumanists forging their path at all costs, versus a more traditional, agrarian based society with intolerance the order of the day? An 'either/or' society with limited shades of grey, quantum society and Zen gone by the way side, like the Jesus paradigm after the Gospels were hidden and the Apostles missing in action, (only to resurface with their friends at the last minute)?
Or perhaps we will have even more immature and mis-interprating folks in the Bible Belt areas, trying to curb the devilish tide against their children, who normally interact with robo-Bible Companions but through repression are now "getting into" and hacking them into roboSex dolls , or obtaining a 'cracked' version of "Annie the Android Nurse" by the Toshiba Corporation and effectively transforming her into someone's personal sex slave. Or they'll just go to the big city and sign up for a legitimate version, no longer welcome back home.
When it comes to all these new and amazing promises which the nanotech and other singularity technologies hold, I wonder, what will a bunch of 'science-based' and 'business-based' men with boners choose?
Trust me, in 2030, we'll just be happy our robo-companions are giving us a blow job and not a nanoAttack force and taking away most of our jobs at a rate that collapses the system. It seems to be heading in that direction, unfortunately. The geo-cidal trends may force us to come up with a dangerous geo-engineering project essentially tested in a kid's bathtub, but collectively agreed to by the FDA-s of the world. OMG, we had no idea that nano-metals kill fish? It's not just copper and mercury? The materials were tested for a short time in isolated environments. Sorry about all the dead or toxic marine life. Honestly, it's not a conspiracy, we're just so exited about all these new technologies and business opportunities, I guess we were just acting like anxious monkeys, not scientists in white lab coats.
DDT and Asbestos will seem like mild cases of the flu. Oh, well, hopefully you'll keep buying our nano-toothpaste and GMO products, right? What's that? You want an organic piece of fruit? We're sorry, we went to school for nanotechnology. Can we offer you some neo-GMO bananas fortified with, oh heck, every vitamin and mineral with secret flavouring and enhancements in unbalanced manufactured portions? Don't be concerned, really, studies were made to show they're good for you. You googled it? Oh, you shouldn't do that- you can't believe what you find on the internet.
Perhaps the land and the sea will have to lie fallow every once and awhile before it does so like it did after the Roman Empire collapsed. Perhaps that's the back-up plan.
Well, this little human 'robot', me, is telling us to be watchful; be mindful regarding nanoConsumer goods. At least make sure your dildo or vaginal toy is common sense approved, not Big NanoBusiness Approved or Government Approved. Shouldn't it be God or Zen 'Approved?' We need to live by the Golden Rule. And that means not designing killer robots (or friendly ones that can be 'turned') or nanotech toothpaste with even worse stuff in it than merely processed acid-forming wheat starch where neem bark or the careful and occasional alum-free baking soda will suffice. (Or real lemon and real salt, of course.) Start removing Beefaroni from our lives, returning whole and (mostly) local foods in our lives and get reacquainted with 'Mindfulness' which the ancient ones 'discovered.' A local, sustainable diet, not a massive gmo-nanotech agri-system, everywhere and at all costs, 'covered' or 'encouraged' by the state. Very carefully we must tread, especially in the biological realm. If we manufacture self-terminating nanobots/artificial cells/ and whatever by designing 'fail-safe' environmental triggers or 'breeding' it within their own artificial dna- these nanobots, like their gmo parents (who are actually their slow cousins) whom themselves affect the epigenetics of humanity and the environment, in subtle ways that we aren't yet certain, as is evidenced by new groundbreaking research showing that microscopic RNA in plants that people consume enters your body and is actually capable of affecting the expression of up to 30% of your genes, possibly causing 'minor' genetic or other chain reactions, so they say in a few scientific journals. (You are [sort of] what you eat- go figure). What if we then use nanotech and gmo together? Yeah...let's try that. It seems perfectly plausible- no different than adding a little salt and then pepper. These little aforementioned nanoFranken monsters may 'discover' (or even corporate collusion or shady cartels may 'program' them) to find a way to extend their lifespan or reduce, mutate, or even appear to enhance other lifestrains, either through their own devices, or hacked and designed by a real person or persons, or by accident. Heck, we all just wanna sell more nanoantibacterial dildos or condoms. Yes, they may cause adverse reactions but we have no studies which show this. It's just a disclaimer for legal reasons. Don't worry Mr and Mrs Sexually Active. Except people are dicks. "Watch out what's on your disco stick and keep your nose clean, son."
The neo-twitter feed of the future may read:
"Did you eat that genius teenagers' 'hacked' nano-gmo-potato gene. It's affected all potatoes from Maine. His dad worked at a lab. Dang! #Mad #nano-gmo-potato #birdfluhack. Oops. Call in the nanospill nanobots. The manufacturer expresses regret and are working closely with the good guys."
If we consciously (at least more often) vibrate above 500 Hz, things can get better, they say. Good vibrations vibrate good vibrations, and rebuild- rejuvenate. The ants.....let's look to the ants. Direct translations are not possible. We can only mimic the source. And that's wonderful. Love those who hate you, love those who love you and love those who love not. One love at a time. Love up, love every where. Nanolove- and it doesn't come from a pill manufactured in Hitachi's Emotion Labs where they accidentally extracted the 'improper' ratio of the Primary emotions, causing side-effects of rage and sorrow. (Kind of like Paxil, only worse.) With compassion, you don't have to get a room. There is one room, there are many rooms. The door is always open, even if just a crack. A world of Quantum possibilities does not mean we need to try them out in a world of Relativity. We must learn to properly live in a Universe of breadcrumbs before we can eat the loaf. The periodic table must be used carefully, and that means that Copper and other Metals will effect Fish. Especially the shiny metallic looking ones. The 'nano-zone' might not be comfortable for Goldilocks at times, she told us so when she breathed in Asbestos and used (nano) titanium (dioxide) on her skin for Sunblock when Momma told her not don't stay out in the Sun for so long (especially since she has golden locks.) Or simply just use 'natural' products and hats and socks and the shade of a tree or two. Does that make sense?
Please contemplate this or that...for a quanta or one.
If we consciously (at least more often) vibrate above 500 Hz, things can get better, they say. Good vibrations vibrate good vibrations, and rebuild- rejuvenate. The ants.....let's look to the ants. Direct translations are not possible. We can only mimic the source. And that's wonderful. Love those who hate you, love those who love you and love those who love not. One love at a time. Love up, love every where. Nanolove- and it doesn't come from a pill manufactured in Hitachi's Emotion Labs where they accidentally extracted the 'improper' ratio of the Primary emotions, causing side-effects of rage and sorrow. (Kind of like Paxil, only worse.) With compassion, you don't have to get a room. There is one room, there are many rooms. The door is always open, even if just a crack. A world of Quantum possibilities does not mean we need to try them out in a world of Relativity. We must learn to properly live in a Universe of breadcrumbs before we can eat the loaf. The periodic table must be used carefully, and that means that Copper and other Metals will effect Fish. Especially the shiny metallic looking ones. The 'nano-zone' might not be comfortable for Goldilocks at times, she told us so when she breathed in Asbestos and used (nano) titanium (dioxide) on her skin for Sunblock when Momma told her not don't stay out in the Sun for so long (especially since she has golden locks.) Or simply just use 'natural' products and hats and socks and the shade of a tree or two. Does that make sense?
Please contemplate this or that...for a quanta or one.
SEE ALSO:
http://www.understandingnano.com/nanotechnology-ethics.html
http://www.cban.ca/Resources/Topics/Nanotechnology
http://www.cban.ca/Resources/Topics/Nanotechnology
Prevention and the principle of caution and logic uninfluenced by money is the best medicine.
- Paul von Dubrovnik
- Paul von Dubrovnik
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