thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

496 EXTRA Battle Of The Shouldwes And The Doits


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I went to a conference of the association of professional futurists. And it was an amazing conference because we had futurists from all over the world come on and talk about it. And it was great it was optimistic he was looking at technology from a perspective of how it could make things better for us.  The technology coulTechnologyhuman race the human condition it was great I was speaker after speaker went up there, and they talked about all these different things Qatar computing, etcetera etcetera. Still, I think the one that's the most annoying to me is between the should we use and the do it I do it for example if somebody like Thomas Edison Ilan must Nicolas Tesla in a Marie Curie all these inventors who created all these great things for the human race will burn over right people who invented you know figured out how to how to get us off the ground flight. They do it's are the people who look at a problem.  I get hurt or killed, then that's okay because I'm doing it for the cause of science I'm trying to improve humanity. I'm willing to take the risk that something bad will happen to me so that I can actually do something really, really good, really, really good I don't know if it's gonna work; I know it's gonna work. By the should weeks, that's right, folks, the people who have to make the ethical decision first as to whether or not something should be done before we even know it can be done.  I love to be more; I can't imagine. I mean all his ethical issues about people being immortal, I would love to be more likely to be great. Is the should be's saying should we do that should we be a moral human being.  Should we even think about doing anything that gets my goat? They talk about things that aren't even possible. Yet, we don't even know if they're possible, so we don't even know we haven't even experimented yet we want to stop they want to put a hold on experiments that can prove the life of every human. Because we don't know if we should be doing.  We don't even know if we can do it but at least let's try let's experiment let's take the risk because if we don't take the risk, then how we are going to know some of the biggest breakthroughs that improve humanity immensely have been through people taking the risk and ignoring the should we are not putting an ethical filter on science and just moving forward unfortunately nowadays we have an ethical filter on science all the time the first question we ask is should we do this should we do that when the quick first question should we should ask is can we do this is it possible. So in all of those things, all these technical things that they're talking about can be used in different ways, right? I mean, you can use technology for good. Who knows what you can do so we can invent all sorts of things we can extend our lifespans like crazy if we just told the should we use shut up sit down and let's see if we can do this before we decide we should do this, so I ask you.  Watching Mr listen to this, which one are you are you should we were you know to do it are you in a should we organization or you in a do it organization.

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thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the futureBy chris kalaboukis

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