The Power of Words

Have you ever thought about how much your words mean? They mean a lot. Your future and the future of others is shaped by them. When you really mediate on this it’s easy to see why words (especially the written word) was seen as something magical in the past. When you think something you can’t unthink it. When you say something and someone hears you can’t take it back, it’s in his or her head forever. The neural pathways of your brain and of others are irreversibly changed.

Think about all of the words that are being indiscriminately tossed about on the Internet right now. These words will someday become part of a global Artificial Intelligence. This AI will consume the Internet for its knowledge. Everything you say (for instance what you type on someone’s MySpace page) will become part of its mind. This is not a wild fantasy. It really is only a matter of time before a heuristic is developed to make inferences based on information read from web pages. So, right now keep in mind that everything you put on the Internet will become memories for the AI.