If it's AI and robots you wanted from this series then this one is for you. Artificial Intelligence exists today, when this and other technologies merge the result will be more like Science Fiction than any PC. The technology will be fantastic, the possibilities endless. Get it wrong, the consequences dire.
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>Throughout the world, terrorist nations are using technology in
>order to make sure they have even more power. Instead,
>technology should be used to help nations towards a real good
>system, and not to another oppressive socialist state.
I didn't argue in favor of one or the other just pointed out a solution to a potential problem.
>Unfortunately, I believe this regime will not be regarded as a
>brutal regime, but rather as a peacefull, harmonious way of
>living. The love for technology will and is already becoming a
>(pseudo-)religion and it will be used by the comming rulers of
>the regime I talked about. Any person who will be opposed
>to accept this "religion" or to allow technology being incorporated
>in his or her body, will be slain or won't be able to buy or sell things.
Technology is a tool, it is neither good or evil.
It it the owner of the hands it is in that decides how it is used.
>By the way, a mixture of Socialism and Capitalism sounds pretty
>much like Nazism to me, yet another variant of Socialism. When
>you start combining this system with a "religion" of software/>technology/etc (think of the Linux cult) and making everything >electronic, we will be dealing with a new kind of a brutal regime.
I suspect your equating socialism with Nazism is probably what got your other post modded down.
However you may be interested in this page if you take the test (it's not long) a fasinating analysis follows adding an authoritarian-libertarian element to traditional Left-Right politics.
>Throughout the world, terrorist nations are using technology in
>order to make sure they have even more power. Instead,
>technology should be used to help nations towards a real good
>system, and not to another oppressive socialist state.
I didn't argue in favor of one or the other just pointed out a solution to a potential problem.
>Unfortunately, I believe this regime will not be regarded as a
>brutal regime, but rather as a peacefull, harmonious way of
>living. The love for technology will and is already becoming a
>(pseudo-)religion and it will be used by the comming rulers of
>the regime I talked about. Any person who will be opposed
>to accept this "religion" or to allow technology being incorporated
>in his or her body, will be slain or won't be able to buy or sell things.
Technology is a tool, it is neither good or evil.
It it the owner of the hands it is in that decides how it is used.
>By the way, a mixture of Socialism and Capitalism sounds pretty
>much like Nazism to me, yet another variant of Socialism. When
>you start combining this system with a "religion" of software/>technology/etc (think of the Linux cult) and making everything >electronic, we will be dealing with a new kind of a brutal regime.
I suspect your equating socialism with Nazism is probably what got your other post modded down.
However you may be interested in this page if you take the test (it's not long) a fasinating analysis follows adding an authoritarian-libertarian element to traditional Left-Right politics.
http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/