Did you read the uni-bomber manifesto? What did you think of that paper? Although written by a criminal it did have some interesting comments and some things that society should be considering as they advance science and address human interaction in society, as well as the future of human-computer interface.

Soon we may have computer chips hooked to our brains and we will be able to do more things faster with better data and knowledge. I enjoyed reading the "Uni-bomber Manifesto" as he attempted to address these issues in the Data Smog of the current paradigm. Apparently he decided foolishly to do something about it in a very sub-human like way and we all know the story about that; an unfortunate tale of criminality.

If we allow all the human aspects and what it is to be human then there will be fighting in the streets, if we evolve thru our technologies and pay attention to the forward progression, perhaps we can now move into the future period without being doomed to repeat. In most modern societies we have decided to over come those human aspects thru rules of our civilizations, but those aspects are very human. Eventually as population on the Planet becomes more dense some 30 Billion Humans by 2050, we may decide to modify the human brain to prevent the negative aspects of what makes us human or we may decide to stay natural. So should we allow rioting in the streets to make us feel alive and human and fully engaged; is that what it means to be human? Should we celebrate 4-week riots like we saw as France burned or should we re-design ourselves to live in a different way of live?

We need to decide and a national discussion maybe necessary to insure that we make technology work for us and not enslave us. We need to decide how human we wish to remain and how much we can tolerate. Interesting topic for a think tank isn