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Erlyrisa
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15 Mar 2007, 9:42 pm

If you could invent something that would End all invention.... would you do it?


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15 Mar 2007, 9:51 pm

Erlyrisa wrote:
If you could invent something that would End all invention.... would you do it?


kill myself and make sure no one ever got the plans.


ending all invention could do nothing but bad things.



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15 Mar 2007, 9:57 pm

Which is the Plot of Irobot...when God/Pharoh the creator kills himself.


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15 Mar 2007, 10:02 pm

What do you mean by end all invention? Do we mean a pinnacle of all knowledge that can never be surpassed? The invention of all? Or do we mean merely an end to progress?



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15 Mar 2007, 10:06 pm

Both are feasible pionts....

Anitgravity to end all inverntion

or smething simple like a new machine like in Irobot (but the piont in Irobot is that now the robots are the inventors)


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15 Mar 2007, 10:20 pm

We all ready know what the last invention is:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... eplication



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15 Mar 2007, 10:34 pm

I would have all the appropriate technology avaliable then prevent anymore inventing.



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16 Mar 2007, 1:39 am

It could be a Doomsday Device which ends all life on earth, and thus invention by humans. So, not that.

Or, it could be something so great that no more invention was needed. I don't know whether that's good or bad. I hope that it doesn't exclude art. If so, I don't think you would see art go away.