Have you noticed, how smartphones vacuum tangible reality?
How many of you have real alarm clock sitting on the table, for example. It lives on, but as more intangible presence, in each and every phone. Alarm clock has died, but lives. It is present, but not present at the same time, just the spirit continues, I would say.
Soon it will happen or is happening to other items as well, and perhaps one day our spirits will live in the machine the same way alarm clock lives now.
I wholeheartedly recommend watching Japanese anime Ghost in the shell movies as a nice peek to the future.
I think it's pretty obvious. The Romans had a continent-spanning civilization, with trade routes, aquaducts, roads, and elaborate concrete buildings and structures, and their civilization collapsed. It took over 1000 years to get back to the level of civilization the Romans had.
This is a beautiful analogy. It captures the essence of it. The clock has transcended from wood and steel gears into flowing electrons on a generic computational matrix. It will be the same for humans.
It'll become pretty funny if humans become so addicted to alt-reality that future generations view leaving the planet's atmosphere as stuff of nightmares. Since they'll no longer have instant access any more.
How many of you have real alarm clock sitting on the table, for example. It lives on, but as more intangible presence, in each and every phone. Alarm clock has died, but lives. It is present, but not present at the same time, just the spirit continues, I would say.
Soon it will happen or is happening to other items as well, and perhaps one day our spirits will live in the machine the same way alarm clock lives now.
I wholeheartedly recommend watching Japanese anime Ghost in the shell movies as a nice peek to the future.