Could Machines Inherit the Earth?

[Yavin4]

I think that they could.

[qnr]

1. only the meek ones, that didn't have the guts to go up

against the big machines in the juicier parts of the stellar empire.

[alittlelark]

2. Could skin-shifting lizards inherit the earth?

they might.

[AZCat]

3. They're gonna have a hard time...

taking it from the bugs.

[Sperk]

4. I'll take the machines!!! They're probably have more compassion than our

current "leaders", not to mention smarter.

[LoZoccolo]

5. There was a big article about this in /Wired/ like four years ago.

Have you read it? I can go find it online if you haven't.

Also, there's a book called The Age of Spiritual Machines that's pretty much about the same thing.

I don't think they will because there's no reason we'd set them up to do so.

[LoZoccolo]

6. Here.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html

This was like the height of the Internet age though, or just after it started to decline. I imagine not many people think about this stuff seriously now, positive or negative.

[ret5hd]

7. the REAL question is: after machines inherit the earth...

will they have endless wars and interminably long discussions concerning the desires of their supposedly perfect and omnipotent CREATOR?

[Tom Kitten]

8. They certainly could

which is one reason to support the Constitutional amendment allowing foreign-born citizens to become President so Ahnold can become President and save us from the bad Terminators!

I'm being tongue in cheek, by the way...

[Guy Fawkes]

9. only X-10 rules the earth

[lpbk2713]

10. I believe ATM's and various other card readers already do.

If they all decided to not work at one specific time we'd be screwed. No money, no groceries, no gas, no getting in or out of some buildings. We would be at their mercy.

[Tom Kitten]

11. It sounds like a really bad movie

that someone like, say, Stephen King might direct...

Maybe get Emilio Estevaz to play the lead, I've heard he's not doing much lately...

[I_like_chicken]

12. I don't know

why don't you ask Ahnuld...Governor Ahnuld