Will the machines of the future drink wine? When mankind has been eclipsed by the supercomputers we create and those supercomputers in effect create new supercomputers more power than themselves, will those machines imbibe?
Drinking alcohol is not a pursuit solely performed by humans. Monkeys and other animals ingest fermented fruit that is essentially alcohol. Koalas get buzzed on eucalyptus. However, will the more intelligent forms of "life" which follow us have the same desires for a buzz and camaraderie? If they are too have superior intelligence, and intelligence is not just the ability to crunch algorithms, but also the ability to feel emotions, then the answer seems to be yes. However, if intelligence is just those abilities that we associate to already be in place in modern computers, wine appears to be headed for extinction in the event of a technological singularity.
However, what if the buzz in the future supercomputers is generated through a different means than existing mechanisms? What if the wine, cannabis, and other forms of buzz generation have attributes that the supercomputers will parse out and use to create a super buzz mechanism, with a form factor unlike that we currently manifested by a colored liquid in a glass? What if the wine looseness is coupled with cannabis' ability to largely negate hangovers? If so, I'm looking forward to the singularity.
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