So over the past couple of days I’ve really been wondering whether or not a blog actually has an active role in discussion/conversation. Most people use a blog as a place to say what they want hoping (sometimes) that other people might hear. People also just say/write (I suppose writing is a more accurate term) what they want because it is an active release.

But then there are blogs that almost act as forums… ideas are put forward and comments are written with continual rebuttals and such. Now to me, this formula or concept of a blog seems to be a much more idealistic and academic pursuit of a blog. So what are we doing with blogs? Pursuing knowledge through discussion and debate or putting things onto the Internet thinking that maybe one day they might get seen?

I suppose we could be doing all of this but really I’m curious to know if all of this is going somewhere. If Internet debate will eventually lead to some form of higher thought and evolution in mankind through technology. Isn’t technology supposed to be aiding us in that? The goal of technology as Pavel put it was to create infinitely self-reproducing technology, but why do we want self-reproducing technology? Is it so that we don’t have to think anymore? Where would self-automated technology that can spawn itself get us? Would it lead to a world where humans are purely leisurely beings unless they choose to be? If higher thought (mathematically and scientifically and maybe one day artistically?) is achieved by machinery that thinks on its own, what are we good for? This seems like a really silly “rantesque” thing right now, but I am hoping that I have put forth some things that other people will be interested in.