ThrillingHuman
always be casual, never be careless
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This is an idea for a future sci-fi civilization that I've conceived and I felt like putting it to the pen, but I don't want to write story with this setting, so I'll leave it here.
As computing technology and robotics developed, a previously unimaginable surge in scientific progress erupted. Now automated intelligence systems could could perform incremental scientific work, as well as the necessary experiments to verify it. From then on, the role of a scientist was to open up new, creative frontiers on the boundaries of human understanding of knowledge, which, when opened, would be rapidly filled towards yet newer boundaries by the ever-evolving smart machinery. Another aspect of the role of a scientist was to systematise, compile and reinvent more elegant and general frameworks of knowledge, yet very soon this role was subsumed by the rapidly developing technology. Now constant technological revolutions became a fact of life, every week would open up a new era in scientific understanding of the Universe. Automation of creativity soon began to blur the line between human and machine, and the rapidly changing living environment prompted people to interface closer and closer to their machine helpers, offloading many thinking subroutines to them, until eventually the human mind (if it could still be called that) had but a small kernel of humanity, and this human part set only the general direction to the massive goliath of automated thought. Because of it, this general direction was soon deduced from the genetic make-up of the original human, and, computing technology more than sufficient for this task, every possible genetic combination of the homo sapient species, including every possible genetic mutation and adaptation from the environment, could now be easily simulated and unborn humans now lived before they could even be born, and they could be born with complete knowledge. At that level of technological sophistication, humanity disappeared, melting into the very fabric of the Universe of machinery they created, their form of existence too subtle for less evolved civilizations to even detect.
As computing technology and robotics developed, a previously unimaginable surge in scientific progress erupted. Now automated intelligence systems could could perform incremental scientific work, as well as the necessary experiments to verify it. From then on, the role of a scientist was to open up new, creative frontiers on the boundaries of human understanding of knowledge, which, when opened, would be rapidly filled towards yet newer boundaries by the ever-evolving smart machinery. Another aspect of the role of a scientist was to systematise, compile and reinvent more elegant and general frameworks of knowledge, yet very soon this role was subsumed by the rapidly developing technology. Now constant technological revolutions became a fact of life, every week would open up a new era in scientific understanding of the Universe. Automation of creativity soon began to blur the line between human and machine, and the rapidly changing living environment prompted people to interface closer and closer to their machine helpers, offloading many thinking subroutines to them, until eventually the human mind (if it could still be called that) had but a small kernel of humanity, and this human part set only the general direction to the massive goliath of automated thought. Because of it, this general direction was soon deduced from the genetic make-up of the original human, and, computing technology more than sufficient for this task, every possible genetic combination of the homo sapient species, including every possible genetic mutation and adaptation from the environment, could now be easily simulated and unborn humans now lived before they could even be born, and they could be born with complete knowledge. At that level of technological sophistication, humanity disappeared, melting into the very fabric of the Universe of machinery they created, their form of existence too subtle for less evolved civilizations to even detect.
