Monday 24 September 2007

The Next Level

It may sound rather preposterous to some, but evolution will not be exclusive to the organic media. This wonderful mechanism has already proven to be of use in many fields, computing, economics, ideas; because ultimately they are linked to ourselves, another part in the evolutionary dance...

We are no more than a stepping stone in evolution, and it makes me wonder how long it will take for us to spawn the next species, that will (maybe) take our memory far beyond the boundaries of our solar system; a more resilient, virtually immortal and inorganic species.

Many of you may be amused by this, but stop and think for a moment, what refrains something being alive in a media other than flesh? “But if it was possible, don't you think it would have already happened?”, maybe not, maybe the inorganic life needs an organic foundation to start, maybe the organic needs to achieve a specific technological level to become the enabler of the inorganic (I prefer “inorganic” other than artificial, as it would be removed from the evolutionary path).

Since we are products of natural evolution, the thought that technology created by us is subject to the same laws is not difficult to follow. Think for example of self altering computer viruses, or replicating nanomachines (Not there just yet, but close...)