I can't remember anything I did last week.
We're so reliant on technology now that there isn't anything we're able to remember anymore. I have a flash drive to back up my flash drive, my computers have calendars that are synced across systems and machines. I have a website with passwords that I can't actually tell you, nor are they written down anywhere. I have to remember what they are by getting a similar feeling to what I had originally when I first typed in the password.
I can remember my fiancee's name, that's a good thing. I can remember her car because it's just as good as mine, and I can remember the ring she's wearing, but if you asked me what she was wearing yesterday, I can probably name a color and it would be wrong.
Hold on, let me check my calendar or facebook. It's probably on there somewhere.
So if we can't remember anything, what the heck are we going to do twenty years from now? People will be learning how to drive their own car using a youtube video every morning and evening. Our thought processes are no longer transcribing from short term to long term memory.
I know you're probably reading all of the above and thinking i'm crazy, but I promise you that you won't actually remember any of this tomorrow, so let's continue, shall we?
The possibility of humanity actually needing a singularity event (where we all become biological/mechanical self sustaining robots) is actually a decent idea at this point. You will literally live forever, you'll be able to remember everything, and your children and grand children and so on will be able to get to know you.
There is the whole "if you live forever you'll never get to be with God" argument, which I actually do agree with, but then, aren't we beginning to forget God as a civilization? Social standards are letting religion fall to the wayside.
Yet religion has been a driving force to technology simultaneously with war and aggression, so if we forget religion, I would assume we would probably lose our purpose in life.
So if we all became robots, maybe we'd have a purpose again, right?
Right?
What was I talking about?
