The Birth of the Virtual Man
Background conditions and the certainty of occurrence.
Reflections on a given topic
The idea of war with computers, who have renounced mankind, has long worn in space, and how and when a ghost wandering around Europe ... Primera only one - "Terminator" with Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is clear that the people one way or another, create in your head problem that is inevitable, as the meeting with death. Question - when?
However, here an attempt to create, rather, so far only up description of the phenomenon, which I would like to qualify as the birth of a virtual person. Under this title are asked to understand a virtual entity, an individual who was a kind of a product unit of society - families, ie, with its virtual nature would be natural parents was to their son or daughter and would be a full representative of the human race in all spheres of public life . Since the majority virtual person would acquire all the rights inherent in people and would bear the full measure of responsibility for their actions. Simply put, the same man - only virtual.
Will there ever be realized this problem? - Time will tell ...
Here are some interesting links (from the magazine "World Internet", # 5 / 1999, p. 23), slightly illuminating (only partially, with one, not the main part) my attitude to the raised topic:
Tom, who are interested in the problem, the results of which "can not, or should not play", is to know that there is a site of "Advances neeestestvennyh science" (Annals of Improbable Research - AIR). AIR - science humor magazine. It is hard to describe what can it be found. And if you like a joke, the pleasure of reading guaranteed! In short, this magazine okolonauchnyh jokes. The sponsors are awarded each year quasi-Nobel Prize. For example, in the safety of this prize in 1998 awarded the inventor, who designed and personally experienced the armor that protects against grizzly bears ... (And I have a VM - the new man's best friend!
Note. At the prize, I do not pretend. J)
You can be distracted for a few minutes of serious work on the study of the site and look at the gallery of curiosities on the server IBM (http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/gallery.html).
A similar page - "Nutty patent month" you can find on the site. http://colitz.com/site/wacky.htm
So much fun, but ... continue our theme.
Predictors
On the premises and even talk a lot not worth it. Only list a few facts:
Internet
Levy dependence in all spheres of activity from electronics
Exclusion of most home computers of fun and entertainment, the de facto computer has become a friend and almost a family member, as a TV (who and what people take with them or throw out their lives, if necessary, harsh choices, such as involuntary resettlement for a long period of seclusion ?)
The gradual development of the masses of computer technology, which eventually will explosively, due to the creation of interfaces with an enhanced degree readable, friendliness and feedback
Children and computer games
Modern cinema and science fiction literature
With absolute certainty it can be argued that even in our country (unless there is a political catastrophe) without a computer soon will be difficult to live normally. All utilities, monitoring accrual and receipt of salary and pensions, purchases in the virtual and later ordinary shops, order tickets - neobhodimoya is only part of my life. I can not say that the computer will replace the phone or a book, movie or theater, but that it can be used to facilitate the life of its own, at least sparing myself from senseless and irretrievable loss of time in queues and thereby acquire the most precious - time to live - so it is as old grandmother does not work ...
Terms of
First there was the word ... Then there is a vague idea ... Then thoughts start to outpace each other and the main thing here is not to lose the essence and salt idea. And now the problem! And any problem you first need to articulate clearly the idea and the principles that define the essence of phenomena - that actually need to get ... All this is so, if the task set is not an idiot (as is, strictly speaking, not a fact!) And the task itself is relevant. Then, clearly set out the principles will serve as baseline data to create programs, iron, and eventually the finished product or in a less successful case, will be the initiator of a similar, but sometimes pryamoprotivopolozhnyh and designs ... This is the first condition. Formulate as follows: - The birth of an idea!
What do you think a virtual person - it's good or bad? I think that good. Mankind has never invented anything wrong ... Another thing how to use it ... Poison and a knife, a bomb and a reactor, a book and only could the computer and the hacker, the hacker and the same with the State Bank, which was robbed by a hacker who robbed a bank and sold the State of its hacking programs to state robbing the bank ... The second condition is: - Do not be afraid of the idea!
People give birth to children. Children grow up and out, as you know, you can have different people, sometimes people do not ...
People will create virtual children. They will grow as tamagochiki, and of them may grow and lawyers, singers, and bankers, and politicians, and the golden hands of the master, and the defenders of the Earth to the cosmos. How to cultivate a new generation of virtual? On harmonization of this issue is still time. I think that now, not even the realization of this phenomenon is the primary problem. Create a virtual monster that united all the negative power of computer hackers, maniacs - in terms of technical specialists - a problem now doable. At the same time, and slingshots from the trenches, and traps with heavy fines in hyperspace enclose no reason. The main thing now - to try to combine many user'ov and I respected programmers (which I'm not) the idea of creating a secular society of virtual people. What I am doing ... as a first step ... and so the third condition: - Explain the whole idea!
Terminology
Here I'd like a few jumping ahead, touch the terminology of the phenomenon.
Who is he? Can we call "None / none - Man? Even if the virtual? Yes For ease of understanding, to ustakanivaniya terminology - so be it!
That offers the first definition - Virtual Man = Virtual Man = VM, ViMan, VirMan or VirtMan.
The second option - Virtual Man = Virtual Person = ViPer or VP (as an option - ViP or VIP = Very Important Person - also fits!) - But it abrreviatura ViPer translated - asp, asp ... Why? It may be ... Birth of a monster ...
Then the third option - Virtual Monster = Virtual Monster! Again we obtain - VM!
Let's see what will get accustomed ... I choose - VM.
Inevitability of
I read in "Internet" (# 14/1999, article "Forecast-telling", p. 009) that the "Internet cafes" assembled gentlemen Alexander Gagin Damian Kudryavtsev, Maxim Kuzmin, Alexey Kryukov, and many others and they discuss prospects of the Internet. And now a quote by Alexander Gagina: - "... As for content projects - nothing else will happen. No mega-projects, compared to which the Rambler seemed to be child's play, will not, because it is not clear where they come from. Creating a Project - a lot of work for six months or a year. If such work someone actually started to do, we knew we would right now. As long as this does not, then the next year nothing appears. System size Rambler grow at the expense of growth and overall growth, but not essential. " And here is a quotation by Ivan Boyko: - "... When they come technologies that will allow you to manage large amounts of information. This is a big difference from the western Russian Internet: We have no idea of how you can solve a problem such as the creation of microsoft.com." Well what can I say? We do not have Bill Gates, and that's it! Unfortunately, being born a virtual person in Russia and may, but that's if he survives?
Do not let the bad news ... There are laws of the universe, can not argue with them. And if destined for the junction, the number of jump in quality - so be it! When it appeared in the family TV? In the 60's! Forty years ago! A computer? In families, of course! 5 years ago ... Progress development of computer technologies horrifying. He could hardly control the producers of iron. The software, of course, tied to iron, but only put superzadachu, in which rate "second life", programmers - and no iron could not hold a flight of fancy and the birth of VM!
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