The Terminator's Future

[Kirby]

Today is the beginning of the Terminator's future. I saw this on the news this morning.

So if you see any machines making decisions and moving about on their own,

RUN!!!!!

 

[The_Alice]

Well ok, but do you think Apple products might be affected? Not sure I could take a baseball bat to my iPhone, iPod, iPad, and iMac. We may just have to suffer under their rule.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Digging deep for topics are we?

I did not know the date. Well, I did know since I have seen T3 so many times but I never remember the date.

However I should because it is my dd's b-day, and the date of many "events" in history.

Skynet, the fictional sentient computer system in the Terminator movies and shows, went online on April 19, according to series mythology. On April 21, it will apparently try to destroy humanity.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/lif...t-on-thursday-says-terminator-lore-55036.html

 

[Kirby]

I like to watch the movies too!

Just thought is was an interesting piece of trivia.....

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I like to watch the movies too!

Just thought is was an interesting piece of trivia.....

Well now I will remember it.

 

[BunsenH]

After today, I'm sure that there will be a new date announced. It's changed a few times since the original Terminator when it was August 1997.

OP - You're not the only one worried, just the most recent.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2704332

 

[The Mystery Machine]

After today, I'm sure that there will be a new date announced. It's changed a few times since the original Terminator when it was August 1997.

Now you are going to make me look it up.

Alright, so the reason for the dates changing is because the timeline is altered through the actions of Sarah Conner, basically.

The date of TODAY as being Judgement Day (J-Day) is from Cameron (female cyborg) in "The Sarah Conner Chronicles" ....aha. Which I did watch and absolutely was ticked when they cancelled it.

http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Cameron

 

[FireDancer]

Many of us in the technology field have very little doubt that at some point in the future our technology will very likely be what destroys the human race. Not global warming, the supernova of the sun, an asteroid, or an alien species.

I think it will be far enough down the line that it won't be my problem. With every major advance there is a small part of me and most people in the industry to think in the back of our heads how exactly that could all go wrong.

Now, it is way more likely to be a bad line of code in a program that runs some advanced energy source which creates a buffer overflow and just blows us all up as opposed to our robots attacking us but you never know.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Many of us in the technology field have very little doubt that at some point in the future our technology will very likely be what destroys the human race. Not global warming, the supernova of the sun, an asteroid, or an alien species.

I think it will be far enough down the line that it won't be my problem. With every major advance there is a small part of me and most people in the industry to think in the back of our heads how exactly that could all go wrong.

Well if you are going to talk about then......

I absolutely see them building a "Terminator" and in fact actually calling it that.

I can see in the future the need to exterminate people due crime and the need to have someone kill them.

It does not take a huge stretch of the imagination to see that a "Terminator" could be used for the task of putting people to death thereby absolving the act off of a human.

They could build that today if they wanted too.

 

[FireDancer]

Well if you are going to talk about then......

I absolutely see them building a "Terminator" and in fact actually calling it that.

I can see in the future the need to exterminate people due crime and the need to have someone kill them.

It does not take a huge stretch of the imagination to see that a "Terminator" could be used for the task of putting people to death thereby absolving the act off of a human.

They could build that today if they wanted too.

I think if it ends up being robots that turn on us their origin will be in the military or police. They are already using unmanned drones and it wouldn't be a hard sell to say if we invade a city with robots as opposed to troops, at least as a first wave, it will save a lot of lives. Even if the machines don't become aware and actively turn on people bad code could end up with them targeting the wrong people.

I really don't mean to come off as an alarmist or conspiracy guy, I'm neither, but I can just see where our technology can go wrong. I have to deal with it everyday on a much much much smaller level.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I think if it ends up being robots that turn on us their origin will be in the military or police. They are already using unmanned drones and it wouldn't be a hard sell to say if we invade a city with robots as opposed to troops, at least as a first wave, it will save a lot of lives. Even if the machines don't become aware and actively turn on people bad code could end up with them targeting the wrong people.

I really don't mean to come off as an alarmist or conspiracy guy, I'm neither, but I can just see where our technology can go wrong. I have to deal with it everyday on a much much much smaller level.

That is already done. Holy crip, have you watch the young kids in the "room" that bomb from overseas? That is wicked crap.

Or the pilots that juice?

Frankly you might see less error imo.

 

[golfgal]

Look at what kind of network damage happens when some nerd in his mom's basement hacks into the WWW and plants a virus--it wouldn't take much to really do some damage via a computer.