folkertThu, Mar 20, 2008 1. I wouldn't consider it to be "my work" if the computer identified all tasks involved as necessary to be accomplished all by itself. Obviously the computer is a fancy tool for the builder-monkey that allows it to condense ideas into manifestations, like a hammer allows me to drive a nail all the way into a piece of wood. It would take me a long time to perform that same task without a hammer. The idea of getting the nail all the way in would be considered my work because it is the output of an idea that came from me. So if you consider "all my work" to be every task necessary to turn an idea into physical reality, I'd be more than happy for that to be the case. Then if you extrapolate this to where vast computer networks are turning the collective ideas of vast organizations of people into larger realities, it is starting to get really interesting.
2. It would suck, but at least I get to be connected in some way. It would be better if things were more like goggling into a Stephenson-esque Metaverse and roam fully immersive datascapes of course.
3. Nope, it is a gateway to all kinds of things that I have a "special bond" with. It would be silly to have a special bond with a hammer.
1. I wouldn't consider it to be "my work" if the computer identified all tasks involved as necessary to be accomplished all by itself. Obviously the computer is a fancy tool for the builder-monkey that allows it to condense ideas into manifestations, like a hammer allows me to drive a nail all the way into a piece of wood. It would take me a long time to perform that same task without a hammer. The idea of getting the nail all the way in would be considered my work because it is the output of an idea that came from me. So if you consider "all my work" to be every task necessary to turn an idea into physical reality, I'd be more than happy for that to be the case. Then if you extrapolate this to where vast computer networks are turning the collective ideas of vast organizations of people into larger realities, it is starting to get really interesting.
2. It would suck, but at least I get to be connected in some way. It would be better if things were more like goggling into a Stephenson-esque Metaverse and roam fully immersive datascapes of course.
3. Nope, it is a gateway to all kinds of things that I have a "special bond" with. It would be silly to have a special bond with a hammer.