"A few years ago a computer was able to simulate a fly's brain" "In 2020, a mouse's brain - in 2040, the human brain " "and in 2060, the brains of all humans at the same time." "Life as we know it will certainly be over." "THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE" "We used to distinguish between the body and soul." "Then the word "soul" was banned because of religious implications - but in the computer age, their meaning is obvious:" "There is hardware and software." "We know that software can be somewhat immortal." "Nothing kills good software solutions, algorithms." "several fields of science have proved - that man is a machine, a finite automaton." "The outcome of evolution." "I find it impossible to think - that such a sIime-based machine would be preserved - for mere nostalgic reasons if we can make quantum computers " "thousands of times more efficient than the human brain - and if they can be equipped with a consciousness " "and the entire spectrum of emotions." "I register everything with manic precision." "Video recording, take notes with a cell phone every minute - on the most trivial things:" "how much a cup of coffee is - what the people look like in a particular bar and so on." "The history of our time can be reconstructed." "I must say that this winter day is fantastic, typical and ideal." "The fields are covered with a faint layer of snow." "well, not fully covered." "The sun is shining and..." "When I was little, my mother started writing children's books." "She had a lively imagination." "She taught me to see trolls and imaginary characters." "My father was a scientist, a chemist - and later, an insurance mathematician." "He introduced me to scientific thinking and mathematics." "My parents gave me two very different impulses." "In school I ran into electronics, electronic music - or the giant brain, the electronic brain, as it was then called." "Insurance companies were thinking about acquiring computers." "They were already using punched card machines - recording data on HoIIerith machines - but it was still mechanical." "My first real contact was in the early 60's - when I started studying physics at the university." "The department of physics had an analogue computer - and I started to do the programming." "Erik Tawaststjerna, professor of music back then, had decided - that the University of helsinki needs an electronic music studio." "I was assigned to develop it, without pay." "That's when I really started studying electronics - and building electronic instruments." "In 1961 or 1962." "The music department could not buy a computer of its own." "They only dreamed about it." "We had to build simpler and cheaper "computers" - from microcircuits and transistors." "The future of this music is quite another question." "Is computer-generated music competitive - as opposed to traditionally made music?" "I really don't know the answer at this point." "The only true benefit of computers in the Iong term - is that music generated by them is very inexpensive." "The clearest distinctive feature of computer-generated music - is that the compositions are no Ionger unique." "Future computer-music composers are like industrial designers - or trendsetters." "The thought may seem depressing right now - but if people who lived 100 years ago - had been told what our world is like " "many of them might've been depressed." "But if you ask us, we are often quite pleased with our times." "Give the central unit data about deposits and withdrawals." "There is nothing mysterious or difficult about computers." "It is essentially a robot that does not think." "It cannot do anything without instructions - and orders it can blindly carry out." "It somehow felt like a passing phase - because we knew that computers and new technology would come." "It was clearly a fast, revolutionary stage." "Moore's law was already known:" "The capacity of electronics will double every 18 months." "It was impossible to think about a permanent base." "And lastly, the tool that translates computer code - into a language understood by humans: the line printer." "In the early 21 st century - people and computers will begin to merge into hyperpersonas." "It will be hard to say where man ends and machine begins." "clever cells sacrifice their independence as in multicell life..." "The young dissident naturally wanted to play tricks - and misuse all technology." "That's how electronic music was born." "We started making music with devices made for other purposes." "technology won't take control as long as man can misuse it." "In the 1960's, I built all kinds of machines pretty much alone - but I was also involved in a group of composers " "with Erkki SaImenhaara, Kari Rydman " "Kaj Chydenius, Otto Donner and many others." "Our efforts usually relied on co-operation - with modern composers from Sweden and other Nordic countries." "Leo NiIsson and ralph Lundsten commissioned an instrument - for a studio they were setting up." "The beauty of this machine is that you can create sequences." "You can monitor light, sound and even mechanical movement." "In other words, it composes sequences." "We want to give first-hand experiences - instead of secondary watching." "It's a way to depressiveIy project - both past events and the present." "It's nice that they work with vibrations." "It works for the hearing-impaired who cannot experience sound." "What do you think, Erkki Kurenniemi?" "We tend to think that computers will have to develop radically - before artificial intelligence can be produced." "I believe it will be so different - from what we now call intelligence - that it is already emerging." "If the internal language of computers, the code - is considered a new kind of score " "it will offer musicians many new ways to think of music - since it won't be limited to the potential of any one sense." "It can be reproduced as sounds, images, motion, colors or scent." "Underground is an underground youth movement." "Young people find the existing system defective." "Underground's efforts and notions, which may seem quite odd - have a clear function." "We want to show that these notions are as rational - as the political decisions of this day and age." "My most important Finnish client was folk artist M. A. Numminen - who was interested in fuzzboxes and song machines." "I built a machine called the electric Quartet." "AII band members could control this mutual instrument." "The underlying thought was a collective instrument of sorts." "What had started out in a pioneer spirit - as an urge to do something for the love of technology - turned at this point into a more social effort - in the spirit of the hippie movement " "that the grown-up world is phoney - and everything is just one great big lie." "We found ourselves in a world far from a complete system - with clear goals." "Instead, it was a place where you could do what you please." "eventually I got into a clash with the academic world." "I did not graduate - and found the theoretical physics of the time faulty and wrong." "Perhaps my rebellion also involved the question - whether the world is definite or indefinite " "continuous or discrete." "I made a somewhat loud exit in the early 1970's." "The future world belongs to people, communities - conscious and subconscious machines - talking animals, thinking cars, roads and cities." "It understands itself in big and small entities." "It is a seIf-destructing, continuously developing - improving, renewing, decaying, instabIe symbiosis " "which analyzes its past and future with the speed of a superbrain - and questions its own existence." "I haven't done anything particular here." "I've just let my mind drift." "I don't have the headache today, Iike I've had lately." "Dimi has a brain, a small data memory." "It remembers over 500 commands." "The instrument can be compared to a musician I communicate with." "I can ask him to remember up to 520 things." "It has now forgotten the previous commands." "It is empty again." "Once I had made a few commissioned pieces - it gave me the ambition to start industrial production." "I had to set up a company to do that." "The demand was pretty high." "DigeIius electronics manufactured everything from train scales - to dairy automatics." "digital as such does not mean anything." "In this case it refers to "memory"." "It could be compared to a tape recorder, an audiotape - which is another memory tool." "The next key project was Dimi-O, an optical Organ." "The electric organ was controlled by digital memory." "It had a standard eIectric-organ keyboard - but the system was hooked up to a TV-monitor." "There was also a video camera." "theoretically, the idea was to write the score - using real graphical notation - and show it to the camera." "The machine would then read it." "We made other similar biofeedback experiments." "The underlying idea was a direct link to the brain." "The technology back then did not take us very far - and good equipment for registering brain activity " "was expensive and rare." "This is my "Love Machine"." "Dimi-S, the sexophon, is a smaller instrument - involving 3-4 people hooked up to the machine with handcuffs." "When the people touched, each touch became a sound." "An intense touch became a higher, more intense sound." "We could now say it was a user interface experiment - in how an instrument could be operated - apart from the traditional keyboard or strings." "Here, it was controlled by touching - perhaps in line with the hippie movement." "It could not be used wearing too much clothing - since clothes are efficient insulators of electricity." "DigeIius electronics went bankrupt." "One project was to design a control unit - for an industrial robot at the RosenIew tool factory." "This is it: the microprocessor." "A small, inexpensive computer." "It can handle bookkeeping or control robots at a factory." "The silicon chip, its heart, is the key to a new era." "It is only a few square millimeters in size - but its electronic power equals tens of thousands of transistors." "The robot identifies shapes and locations." "It can even grab a moving object." "The robot markets are growing rapidly all around the world - but competition is also fierce." "One Iong-term vision might be - that man and computers simulate the history of man and nature:" "First, man was dependent of nature and at its mercy." "Then man started to control nature with technology - and thought he could master nature." "We're now gradually getting over that and realizing - that mankind and nature are mutually dependent." "Private computers are already available." "Computers will eventually be as common at homes - as the telephone or the TV now." "With current technology - it is possible to build a small wristwatch computer - and in time, they might learn to talk and understand a little..." "I wanted to return to my roots in helsinki - and found work at Nokia's cable division." "They built industrial robots for cabIe-factory automation - to move eIectric-wire rolls weighing hundreds of kilos." "I worked in industrial automation for seven years." "It's ironic that Nokia, as we know it today - is based on elimination of all cables and wiring." "THE COMPUTER OF THE FUTURE" "Micros will spread to homes bringing in information and entertainment " "but what is their purpose in homes today?" "There are three main uses for home computers today." "First, as a typewriter or a word processor." "Second, for hobbies." "Mine have to do with art and a bit with computers - making music and images with these tools." "The third key area is games." "This is one of my favorites." "It's a peaceful war game." "You rescue POW's from behind enemy lines - but you have to destroy some tanks, too." "Games provide an efficient gateway to tomorrow's society - in which more and more things will become computer simulations." "And computers are getting smaller." "20 years ago, they were huge." "Now, they're the size of a typewriter." "Next, they'lI fit into your pocket - or perhaps in the temple of eyeglasses or your ear." "Wrist computers will definitely be here in a few years." "This spring gives an idea of how the sound travels." "The sound vibration travels so slow it can be seen visually." "I have this idealistic utopia - that in a hundred years, everybody will make science - study an area of mathematics or something else." "In other words - instead of endlessly watching sports on TV " "the time will be spent in a way that adds to knowledge - which is always cumulative." "Anyone can contribute new fragments of knowledge - discover something in nature or a solution to a math problem " "and the outcome will then be part of a bigger structure." "I've been involved in planning a science exhibition - called Open Questions." "We're showing what science does not yet know." "The exhibition deals with the big open scientific questions - that are still unsolved but will be solved one day." "I believe that the next thing - that will really change man's view of himself in the universe " "is moving into space." "people are already living in a space station." "A colony on the moon is only a matter of time." "A trip to Mars and a colony in Mars, too." "It's not an easy task - to transport 50-100 kg of flesh up there." "It also requires pIanet-Iike conditions." "Reconstruction into even a rough artificial brain - will make it much easier." "I Iike to think that the globe will turn into a museum planet - where man's strong influence on the biosphere will be stopped." "If we must make war, better to do it in space." "The solar system will not be cramped - if we can pack 10 billion people into a golf ball as quanta " "but the problem is our damn endless curiosity - and desire to move on." "Dare I say that if a hundred years from now - a Iarge part of mankind lives outside planet Earth " "in moon's asteroids, Lagrange points - in different orbits " "and they have adjusted to the new, weightless life form - it's not a big leap from there to turn the rocket toward the sun - and go even further." "When we understand the possibility - that some day such clones of the mind or brain backups - can be made conscious again in a suitable quantum computer " "we realize that we don't have to wait for such technology." "We just have to keep every tram ticket - and sales slip " "and write down or record all our thoughts on tape." "It will provide core material which is easy to access - and can form the basis for reconstruction later on." "It took me a Iong time to find the right house." "It was easier from there on." "On the Iast floor " "I found room number 1258." "There was a note on the door but I did not look at it." "I went in, saw the familiar places - went to knock on the next door as the note told me to." "Somebody answered the door in a green terry cloth." "We entered the room." "It looked very different now..." "This is part of my manic registration." "I take about 20,000 pictures a year - and should perhaps double that to some 100 photos per day." "still photos are naturally not the same as video footage - but video is impractical in constant use." "The photos will provide a jerky account." "AII photos must be touched up a little and filed." "AII these videos, photos, diaries, everything - can then be fed into my virtual persona as images." "Mine is probably the Iast generation of mortals - in the sense that medical progress cannot save me biologically - but we're flooded by immortality from many directions." "A clash is inevitable." "You got the hang of it now." "should we underline it or is it clear - that here and now " "we're doing a posthumous video, a work of art - or a collective work based on the idea " "that it will be a part of my vast collection of tapes - on similar and many other situations." "The premiere will be in 2048." "july 10, 2048." "In 58 years." "Where?" "On the net." "No particular place." "You can watch it anywhere with a headband video." "Any channel, no commercial breaks." "I've advertised this so much that they must see it in 2048." "It's possible that 200 years from now people will wish - they had been here when it all got started " "with the first Eniac computer and the discovery of the DNA." "They may be genuinely interested - in reconstructing the 20th and 21 st centuries " "based on existing archives." "What else would they do, in golf balls in space?" "Facing 100,000 years of uneventful life - with nothing else to do than study old archives " "and maybe make interactive video art or compose music." "I don't know what they'lI do." "I guess they'lI just watch porn." "She's a prime example of a beautiful Finnish woman." "Sex was invented a billion years ago." "It feels more fundamental than life and death." "The limited lifetime, death's inevitability - was a by-product of sex." "evolution based on natural selection and sexual choice - has survived for about four billion years now " "but is it the right way to organize future in the Iong term?" "In "Operating manual for Spaceship Earth" " "Buckminster fuller hopefully suggests - that perhaps the computer will finally liberate man - from the tyranny of his genes." "The JyvaskyIa Arts festival was big in the 1960's." "Saarikoski, Stockhausen..." "We think of the brain as a neural net computer." "We're rapidly discovering how the brain works." "There are still big open questions - but I'm sure they will be solved, too." "These include the essence of consciousness, character - personality or identity and all the features - traditionally connected to a biological, living being " "and to man in particular." "They are all universal, independent of underlying material." "In other words, as soon as it's technically possible - our consciousness, mind and persona can enter a computer." "Man can be simulated with adequate precision - meaning that you and your closest friends think " "that you are alive, conscious and have retained your personality - although its house of dust no Ionger exists." "If freezing and reviving a body can't be done biologically " "let's store the mind and the consciousness in bytes." "It makes sense to have a backup by registering everything:" "Images, sounds and thoughts." "In 50 years from now, they can be fed into a pocket computer." "I tend to think that I've seen enough of this cacophony." "I have no greater desire to prolong my Iife - but out of curiosity I would make a backup if it was possible " "and include a note saying:" ""Activate only when absolutely necessary."" "730406 Friday 1 7:20." "Driving out of Turku toward HeIsinki." "Spent the day there." "excellent steak etcetera for lunch, thanks to PietiIa." "Today I must decide whether I'lI go and where to." "There was no: "Stay here"." "On the street." "Going west." 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