Again, a re-occurring theme in my life as I mature, I think about what makes me happy and what I want out of life. I’ve defined it before with money being the roots for happiness. That still stands, but I’m aiming deeper now, with what I want to do with my life. My happiness comes and goes, generally I’m positive overall, but what do I want to do? What makes me happy?
I was absorbed reading a short novel yesterday called The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect about the technology singularity, an event when similiar to Skynet or something when humans build a computer smart enough to think for itself, improve itself, and the consequences as the computer takes over. As all technology improves exponentially, eventually we might reach that point very soon. A scary thought, but the main point I took away from that novel was what people did once the computer took over. Imagine that it could grant you any whim you pleased. No more food, no more need really, no worries, so what would you do? What would make you happy?
The interesting thing I took away was that people would still chat and interact. A person is unique and ultimate. We control things ultimately. When I loosely relate that to my life, I came up with traveling as being one of the most important things to me. Meeting new people, learning new things, experiencing as much as I can ultimately makes me happy. I need to travel more.