We have all the tools necessary to leap far beyond where we currently are on all fronts. But we have forgotten how to adapt and recombine our resources.

The Robots described in the article don’t impress me very much, because we human beings are still the most dangerous and unstable element standing in our way.

There will be a revolution in the lingua franca of general and specific knowledge before anything else: a definition of the necessity of our inherent nature and what is probable about how that nature is ultimately expressed in thought and action.

Its going to be cool.

A thought from
Tom

Watch out for the police and their tricks. Haven’t you heart they’re as smart as 3-year-old humans?

Another anecdote. A friend is an avid cactusophile. He worked for a furniture company and would ride with the truck out to California and buy cactus from the nurseries there and bring them back. At some border checkpoint there was a garden of confiscated cacti. The driver jokingly said, “I’ll distract them and you get you some cactus.” Came back to the truck and they roll on down the road. Driver looks in the mirror and the sleeper is full of newly dugup cacti.

We have essentially no ‘border patrol’ where I’m at (or anything like it). However, the ‘good old boy’ LEO population perpetually violates 4th amendment. If you get pulled over and don’t look, you know, white christian ‘merican, you can bet you’ll be first asked to be searched, then harassed and likely arrested if you refuse, then have your vehicle impounded and ‘searched’ (read: vandalized by taking apart without the proper skills and care to properly take a vehicle apart). They will manage to justify it after the fact somehow. Unless you’ve got a camera running for the whole thing you’re screwed.

It’s common practice here, even as far north as Sante Fe, where people are pulled out of work and have their documents and backgrounds checked by feds running routine raids looking for “illegals”. This isn’t “we’ve got a tip and we’re coming for one of you”… it’s a net where they take all the hispanic looking individuals in a building and check every one.

And considering the population of New Mexico, that could be no end entertaining. I do wonder what happens when some newbie pulls it on Governor Richardson?