TOPIC: ISSUE159 - "The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only tools of human minds."
WORDS: 527
TIME: 00:41:40
DATE: 2008-8-18 22:49:04

Will human always be superior to machine? There is no doubt that it is true for now when no machine can act better than human. However, there are all kinds of media including movies and books keep showing concern about the power created by human will control ourselves one day; Will this be true in the future? No one can predict it.
In the long of human' history, people keep doing research on different fields, and explore for a breakthrough in different regions. For instance, the invention of computer have bring ourselves to world full of digitals, and with more and more parts of our lives controlled by computers, we can enjoy much more efficiency than before. Someone may argue that the computer itself who has a better ability to calculate may be a evidence that human is behind computer. However, the computer itself cannot make the world, and they are valuable only when people operate them as tools. Actually, people's ability is so limited that we have to make different kinds of tools with which we can work with higher efficiency and accuracy.
Although many inventions changed the whole world, no one can change the world by itself at present. However, can anyone assure that the machine will never gain the ability to be superior to the world? Maybe no one is able to make such a promise. Actually, everyone who benefits from the all kinds of machines is equally suffered from them. For instance, everyone who uses a computer may have some experience where no measure can be taken to a virus in the computer, and the virus is so developed that it can make the computer totally down. Maybe you may mention the virus-killer who is always powerful to take away those viruses. However, who can promise that the virus-killers will always be superior to those viruses? Maybe even the maker of those virus-killers cannot make a reply to such a doubt.
Both virus-killers and virus are actually made by people theirselves, that is to say, only people theirselves have the ability to determine the direction of technology. Even if there is someday the machine is going to be superior than human, and we cannot keep them in our control again, there must be some time people "had" chance to control it, because a machine cannot develop itself at the origin. In this extends, if people are always prude when they are doing their research and determine the direction of technology, the power of machine can always be controlled. So people' mind will be always super enough because they are controlling the machine, and make them serve human.
In sum, it is human ourselves who determine whether the machine can stand superior than human mind or not, and if there are lots of people like virus-makers who keep showing his power to control the world without any concern to the hidden danger to the world, the technology may run beyond human and be out of control. In a way, people who are making the technology are always responsible and able to assure that human mind can be superior to machines.

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