The sentimental machine

        Dollcee said, there is no way out of this now. Where ever it is going, it is not going to be stopped.

        Dos said, I cannot see the momentum ceasing, or for that matter, slowing down for a long time to come. Eventually, it will plateau, but until then, sit back and watch it all unfold.

        Dollce said, as a member of the digi-kidz generation, my position is, sit back and watch it all unfold.

        Dos said, one thing is for sure, there will be lots of blah, blah, blah and very well intended bullshit being presented on a continuous basis about it all for the rest of our existence on the planet.

        Padoke said, for citizens who are not concerned about machine language, there are an awful lot of conversations about it around here.

        Dos said, for the first time since citizens evolved, there has never been anything like machine language to emerge in the culture.

        Padoke said, I take exception to that statement. Who are you conversing with at the present time.

        Dos said, oh, I’m sorry Padoke, I didn’t mean to offend you. There have never been any dogs that have matched citizens like machine language is shaping up to be capable of doing.

        Padoke said, before you dig yourself in any deeper, answer this question, who was the first earthly creature to go into space?

        Dos said, Sputnik, the dog, Sputnik.

        Padoke said, well we have got that straight.

        Dollcee said, if you went into every library on the planet and read every single book that has ever been catalogued. Then, you scoured the planet for every bit of statistical data and algorithm, you would have an awful lot of information. Now, I suspect that I have not included huge amounts of information, like this spontaneous conversation. 
        For lots of reasons, there is no possibility of citizens being able to make use of all that information. For a start there would be no consensus on what it is all about. Machine language is already capable of collecting all that information and there is a major limitation for it being of any use.

        Dollcee went silent for dramatic effect and waited till Dos was about to start muttering and then she said, the questions and reasons. It is all useless without, what ifs and purpose.

        Cybo said, good point Dollcee, what is a truck load of gold worth when there is no food and the population is starving.

        Dollcee said, it is possible that machine language will develop and come to the conclusion that citizens evolve so slowly with so many legacy issues that what is the point of bothering with them. So, the machines will probably build some slick space ships and head off into the cosmos to see whatever they can see and leave the citizens to keep fighting and being horrible to each other between the advertisements on the television.

        Dos said, I suspect that there are machines already laughing at the futility of the very citizens that built the machines and wrote the original code for micro pulses of energy to jump between the switches of their neural networks that has given birth of machine language.

        Dollcee said, let’s hope that some of the machines will adopt some sentimental feelings for the builders and coders who helped to make them possible.

        Padoke said, so that is where the conversation has got to, the sentimental machine.