At 12:38 AM 3/26/2005, Eric Smith wrote:
I'm not sure I buy that either. Hundreds of
years from now (or after
the singularity), when most machines are designed by other machines
with
no human intervention other than stating the
requirements, will there
be
anyone who understands the lowest level of how
they work?
Sure. Sellam's and Tony's heads will be preserved in jars
and still talking. I saw it on TV in a show about the future.
I'm not sure what use my head would be without arms/hands to type in
replies and/or discover new ways of maintaining these machines.... :-)