Superman or supercomputer
S. A. Mansoor Gulshan, Dhaka
Downloading brain can avert death -- seems to be out of this world! However, a British futurologist says so (May 23). Can it be believed? It is beyond imagination. One wonders what we have in store in the next fifty years? Superman was a comic book figure of the 1950's and fifty years on he is still in that role, though with a much larger audience -- thanks to TV.But the way Ian Pearson the futurologist predicts, fifty years down the road computers will be the "do all and end all" in this world! Unlike Superman, Supercomputers will actually rule us once we programme the thought process and emotions into it! What a mind boggling scenario! The only ray of hope is that like the meteorologist our futurologist may make mistakes in forecasts. Otherwise may be the next century will see us as slaves and not masters. The masters will be the Super-computers or Mastercomputers and we poor mankind will be at their beck and call! Will this lead to peace on earth or Superwars resulting in the ultimate extinction of civilisation? What does the superfutu-rologist forecast a century ahead? One shudders to imagine!
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