What Happens When Super Computers Answer All Mankind's Questions?

At some point the super computer artificial intelligence systems we build will be able to answer all of mankind's questions. Now then, I have one more question to ask; what happens when theses systems answer all of our questions? And exactly what day and at what hour will that occur? Are you beginning to see what I'm getting at?

Right now our super computers cannot predict the weather, or the exact point at which a hurricane will make landfall based on the current circumstances, conditions, wind speed, atmosphere, ocean surface temperatures, and barometric pressure. But someday they will, as we are approaching super computer speeds in the exoFlop range. The ability to do that many calculations per second, and there is no reason why it would stop there, will actually allow a super computer to figure out the minute changes in weather caused by a butterfly flapping his wings; The Butterfly Effect, if you will.

But if a super computer can answer all the questions of mankind, then will humans stop asking questions? And when a human asks a question that has already been answered, the super computer will merely re-provide that identical answer again. Maybe the super computers and artificial intelligence systems will then become aware, and get tired of answering the same question over and over again, allowing the individual to surf the database without them.

Who might get more perturbed the super computer or the humans at the point at which all the questions have been asked, and also answered? An all-knowing computer that could calculate probability by percentages to such a reliable degree would be invaluable, but that would also affect the human psyche because nothing is left up to chance. Or it would make chance such a novelty, and such a scarce and precious commodity, that humans might change their behavior merely in an effort to dodge fate.

Of course that too could be calculated by the level of animosity of the individual human to go and do something out of the ordinary by chance, merely to prove the super computer wrong. Are you beginning to see the psychological and philosophical conundrum in all of this? In fact at that point everything would change in human society and civilization.

The super computers would be treated as if they were gods, but hated and despised when humans learn that freedom and freedom of thought is nothing more than an illusion, or is it? Indeed, I guess the super computers will tell us the answer that too someday. And until that day, I ask that you to please consider all this and think on it. You may shoot me an e-mail with your answer.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,777 articles by 7 PM on June 27, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..

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What Happens When Super Computers Answer All Mankind's Questions?

At some point the super computer artificial intelligence systems we build will be able to answer all of mankind's questions. Now then, I have one more question to ask; what happens when theses systems answer all of our questions? And exactly what day and at what hour will that occur? Are you beginning to see what I'm getting at?

Right now our super computers cannot predict the weather, or the exact point at which a hurricane will make landfall based on the current circumstances, conditions, wind speed, atmosphere, ocean surface temperatures, and barometric pressure. But someday they will, as we are approaching super computer speeds in the exoFlop range. The ability to do that many calculations per second, and there is no reason why it would stop there, will actually allow a super computer to figure out the minute changes in weather caused by a butterfly flapping his wings; The Butterfly Effect, if you will.

But if a super computer can answer all the questions of mankind, then will humans stop asking questions? And when a human asks a question that has already been answered, the super computer will merely re-provide that identical answer again. Maybe the super computers and artificial intelligence systems will then become aware, and get tired of answering the same question over and over again, allowing the individual to surf the database without them.

Who might get more perturbed the super computer or the humans at the point at which all the questions have been asked, and also answered? An all-knowing computer that could calculate probability by percentages to such a reliable degree would be invaluable, but that would also affect the human psyche because nothing is left up to chance. Or it would make chance such a novelty, and such a scarce and precious commodity, that humans might change their behavior merely in an effort to dodge fate.

Of course that too could be calculated by the level of animosity of the individual human to go and do something out of the ordinary by chance, merely to prove the super computer wrong. Are you beginning to see the psychological and philosophical conundrum in all of this? In fact at that point everything would change in human society and civilization.

The super computers would be treated as if they were gods, but hated and despised when humans learn that freedom and freedom of thought is nothing more than an illusion, or is it? Indeed, I guess the super computers will tell us the answer that too someday. And until that day, I ask that you to please consider all this and think on it. You may shoot me an e-mail with your answer.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,777 articles by 7 PM on June 27, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..

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Don't Blame a Lack of Communication For Everything That Happens

In marriage, as in business, communication is considered to be the key. However, did you ever consider the possibility that we tend to blame a lack of communication for everything that goes wrong? We just ran out of garbage bags or copy paper, and we immediately think "Oh, oh, someone failed to communicate our needs." Communication, or the lack thereof, has become our favorite scapegoat, and instead of actually cooperating and fixing our problems, we sit around casting blame. How much more efficiently we would be able to operate if we spent our time dealing with the real issues instead of lumping everything into the general category of communication.

Instead of jumping to the mistaken conclusion that communication was the culprit, take a minute to stop and ferret out the underlying cause of the problem. Why don't you have any garbage bags? You meant to write them on your list but Jimmy skinned his knee and you never got it done? Your husband told you he'd taken the last one for yard work, but you were in the middle of cooking dinner and the lack of garbage bags just wasn't an issue right then? Communication was not lacking in these instances. Instead, life intervened and threw you curve balls. It's no one's fault, and there's no need to try and cast blame.

Blaming your spouse for things beyond his or her control will be detrimental to your relationship. You can try to blame your husband for attempting to talk to you while you were busy cooking, saying that he should have told you about the bags when you weren't busy, but what purpose does that serve? Instead of trying to break every problem down into who to blame, you need to resign yourself to the fact that life happens, and no one is perfect, not even you. Don't expect too much from anyone, and you won't be disappointed.

In general, if people are not communicating effectively, there is another, deeper reason for the problem. If your spouse seldom has time to converse with you, what's troubling him or her? Don't take it personally when the problem probably has nothing to do with you. Maybe there's trouble at work, a conflict with a friend, or health issues. There's nothing that can't be helped by just sitting down and discussing what you're perceiving and trying to find out what's really going on. If you don't take the time to both talk and listen, your marriage is headed for far greater problems than you're having now.

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