IF you’ve been online recently, and have a “Twitter” account, you’ll have noticed that they name on the application itself has formally been changed to X. Why? It’s the first step in what appears to be a mega-transformation of the chatting service formerly known as Twitter. Elon Musk has already made some improvements to the platform, the first being the less people are being suspended/banne for stupid “rules” violations (rules that the crew there could never fully explain). At least I don’t see as many complaints a I used to. It’s also interesting that they’ve been allowing longer forms posts, including video. So now it seems a user can continue as is or go to a longer written or video format if wanted.

I think we’re talking not just the application formerly known as Twitter, but some sort of integration for competitor for Instagram and YouTube, all in one. One stop shopping for the general user, one stop for the creators. It seems to me that yes, somehow there will be a way to squeeze money out of it but it may need more than few plug-ins to make it more than a toy for the Internet Elites. An entire architechture may need to be developed to not only replace the original power train that runs today, but something that will be able o self-generate as it grows larger, possibly exponentially . It will also have to have a simple way to interface new, complex modules as the platform expands to handle its various tasks. Plug n play will have a completely new meaning.

Let’s put away all of those images from the Terminator series where intelligent(?) machines take over the Earth snd to exterminate humans. These will be discrete machines, created virtually, not in a factory somewhere. In order to have machines that are “alive” you have to understand what life is to begin with and I don’t see that in our near future. Consider the human baby. When it’s born, it has functions that are summated by the brain like heart and breathing as well as hearing and sight. But does a one minute old baby know what it’s looking st with its first view of a new environment? Does it automatically understand sounds, as language? There are lots of things for scientists and engineers to figure out before they can call s machine alive. How long? Some have said, soon, but I differ. For decades physicists have been working on a solution to our energy problems and have only recently had s breakthrough. It’s called Fusion, the mechanism of the sun. The breakthrough? Having s stable reaction for less than a billionth of a second. Imagine lighting that candle. Now, create a machine without any human intervention. Our most basic technology, a CPU requires a lot of human intervention in order for it to be able to “talk”(execute instructions). How much more before a computer would be able to communicate without any human intervention?

So we cn look forward,I believe, to some great innovation coming out of X in the next few years as well as their competitors because competition, I think, is s good thing. IT will spur more snd more that can only help humans in the future. There won’t, be any “runaway” machines because they have to be taught their most basic functions. To prove that to yourself. Shutdown your computer, unplug it from the power source and see how long before it magically comes alive on its own.

Let’s try snd remain positive snd not allow governments or even corporate megaphones to change the direction of technology. Why do we expect when we’ve hit s brick wall? Someone to invent. hammer.