Waiting For Another Time
May 3, 2010 in Blogs
The errand was supposed to take maybe three hours; it went past eight. At least I’d had the good sense to upload today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article and announce it in most of the usual places before I left, so at least some of my readers (those who follow me on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or IMDB or know when to check the appropriate temporal anomalies page on M. J. Young Net) were alerted and have had the chance to read The Last Mimzy part 7: Intelligence, a pun on the fact that it is about the impact the Mimzy may have had on the development of its own cybernetics when the Intel Corporation gets hold of the fragment the government managed to keep.
I have some concern that I am not going to have The Lake House ready before I finish the Mimzy series, but I’m making progress when I can. Spare time seems to be at a premium at the moment, though, so I am nervous about it.
I’m sure there was something else I wanted to say, but I can’t think of it, and it’s late enough that I’m going to try to think as little as possible about as few things as necessary, which means once again I am pushing work into tomorrow, knowing that tomorrow might already be overbooked. We’ll see.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on May 4, 2010
I would have thought it too far advanced to have any kind of impact on any technology. Of course, I haven’t yet read your article on the subject, so you may have agreed with me.
M. J. Young said on May 4, 2010
You would not have thought the same of the pieces of the T-800 in the hands of Cyberdyne?
Note that in Mimzy the Intel guy says that the technology was stuff they’d dreamed about doing–which means that even on that brief view he could tell what was happening with it.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on May 4, 2010
T-800, 40 years in the future.
Mimzy Rabbit 400+ years in the future.
Slightly more advanced level of technology.
M. J. Young said on May 5, 2010
Interesting. How about this, though:
Mimzy Rabbit created by intelligent human being.
T-800 created by Ultra-Intelligent Machine.
One of my fears is UIMs, not because I think they’ll take over the world and oppress humanity (it’s a risk but we’d be stupid enough to deserve it were we to make it possible) but because they could very quickly begin inventing devices that were not merely beyond my comprehension but completely beyond my ability to comprehend.
Humans will never do that, I think. The Mimzy thus is something I could understand if it were explained to me; the Terminator might not be.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on May 5, 2010
Hadn’t thought of it like that. I still think the Mimzy would be more difficult to comprehend. That’s probably biased by my knowledge of how the Terminator developed in the storyline.
And when he says “We’ve dreamed of stuff like this.” Well, I’ve dreamed of horses that could fly. I make no assumptions about how their bodies work, though.
(Doing Therapy)
JohnA1nut said on May 7, 2010
The other thing though is that we have no idea what kinds of resources the inventor of the Mimzy had at his disposal. For all we know, he built an Ultra-Intelligent Machine which built the Mimzy for him. I don’t think we should put much stock in that “We’ve dreamed of stuff like this” comment. You can dream of quite a few things that you could never hope to comprehend.
JohnA1nut said on May 7, 2010
“We’ve dreamed of stuff like this.”
He’s dreamed of sub-microscopic circuitry. Is that so unbelievable? It doesn’t mean he recognizes it or has any idea what it is or what it does.