Dr. Will Caster's View On Technology

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Do you like making your own decisions? Or would you like to be healed instantaneously when you get hurt? According to transcendent with the use of technology anything is possible. Dr. Will Caster is a scientist who tried highly controversial experiments. One of his last experiments he did was trying to prove to people how they can use technology to their advantage. He believed in this so much he made a machine almost like the ultimate computer that can recognize faces and talk to humans as if the computer was a human being. That machine was named PINN, it was almost ready to be shown to the world but he needed to fix one or two quirks first.
Although DR. will Caster loves technology, his best friend Max Waters doesn’t feel the same way. He believes that technology was made to make the world seem smaller. When technology didn’t work the way he thought it would, so he began to write about the issues with too much technology. His writings inspired people who worked very close with the creator of trial machine of PINN. His name was Tom is another
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Will Caster. Will had a program where he was explaining the reasons why we need more technology. He said “For 130,000 years, our capacity to reason has remained unchanged. The combined intellect of the neuroscientists, mathematicians and... hackers... in this auditorium pales in comparison to the most basic A.I. Once online, a sentient machine will quickly overcome the limits of biology. And in a short time, its analytic power will become greater than the collective intelligence of every person born in the history of the world. So imagine such an entity with a full range of human emotion. Even self-awareness”. This program was very inspiring a lot of people were excited to see what was next. Even will was surprised he woke up in a doctor’s office because someone shot at the end of his program. He later on finds out that the bullet he was shot with was infected and he only had four weeks to

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