Notes of Singularity Believers

This book is a collection of novels, not novels. Most of the fantasies about the future world in it are something I have never tried. After reading it, you can reflect on people's lives today.

What impressed me most about this book is the hypothesis about the future living form of human beings-the future environment of the earth is getting worse and weaker, which is no longer suitable for human survival. At this time, someone invented the upload function, which can upload people's consciousness to the cloud. In this way, people can survive in endless resources and infinite space.

When people's consciousness is uploaded to the clouds, people are no longer bound by the body. In order to solve some people's worries about reproduction and heredity, they even invented the "subconscious", that is, you can create a "subconscious" from your consciousness and the consciousness of the environment, just like giving birth to a child.

Many people still refuse to upload themselves. They think that you who live in the clouds are not the real you. Without material body, spirit does not exist. When you have no feelings, you are not the real you. But the real world makes their life very difficult, their bodies are devastated, their spirits are tortured, they are obsessed with uploading or not, and even face the pain that their relatives and friends choose to upload themselves and lose them. Sometimes you get an invitation from them from the cloud. They tell you how free and happy it is to live in the cloud. You're not even sure if this is a false consciousness.

At the same time, people living in the cloud can't avoid the attacks of viruses and hackers. Data may still be erased and servers may still be unplugged. ...

The article "Machine Care Worker" in this book may be closer to our real life. Nowadays, artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, and small medical robots are hot. It is conceivable that everyone will have a robot caregiver in the future.

This is a little creepy. Imagine that when you are old and your limbs are out of control, you have to rely on robots to lie in bed and eat and drink Lazar. What should you do if the robot suddenly has a bug, or is invaded by a virus, or the robot's self-consciousness wakes up when you sleep in the middle of the night? Robots that could have been trusted and relied on wholeheartedly are no longer reliable. What should you do if you are weak?

Of course, any development of science and technology has both advantages and disadvantages. Electricity came, and some people used kerosene lamps. With the advent of the Internet, some people still deliberately isolate themselves from the world. Man's strength is too small to stop the trend of history. I only hope that when science and technology progress, people can control risks and consider more negative effects.