Thread: The Borg and You

Originally Posted by David E. Eaton Sr.

There I go again....forgetting to add the after my comment. Of course, of all the possibilties available, that is certainly one. For that matter, Neandrathal could have been the 'winner' with modern H. sapien losing out.

Thinking about that, I wonder if technology from any tool-using civilization would end up resembling our own.
When it comes to technology, is there an alternative to computers?

Just so I'm clear on the question, and its scope, do you include human minds in your category of computers?

There are a whole bunch of rocks solving differential equations as they orbit the sun

I didn't really think of something like a brain as a biological computer. It makes sense though, that's a neat perspective.

Originally Posted by Joe McCarron

Thinking about that, I wonder if technology from any tool-using civilization would end up resembling our own.
When it comes to technology, is there an alternative to computers?

It'd be interesting to see how 'they' got from primitive tools to computers with only steam energy. Taking your previous scenario about no dinosaurs then there'd be no fossil fuel phase for them to go through. (But, on the plus side, we wouldn't have Gore & company with their phony global warming scam.)

Originally Posted by Joe McCarron

When it comes to technology, is there an alternative to computers?

My HS trig teacher was a computer. That is, back during WWII, she spent all day solving (computing) equations by hand, referencing volumes of tables to nail down the answers to the sixth decimal point. Such computation was required to determine the ballistics on an artillery shell every time a new design came out. She worked for the Dept. of the Army back then, and they'd fire dozens, if not hundreds of the new shells in various weather and wind conditions, then work the ballistics backwards until they could create simple ballistics tables used by the Army to accurately fire the weapon in all conditions.

Originally Posted by Joe McCarron

What do you think the chances are that a .. race hell bend on perfection actually exists?

Any thoughts?

That's us. That's politics. Everybody wants something better. Striving for perfection. More money, more money. Don't forget the religous lot trying to get into heaven, the perfect place with a perfect god.