Transcendent Man
The Singularity: an indeterminate post-human future. Hooey, or prophecy? Perhaps the new movie Transcendent Man debuting at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, will explain it all for us.Comments
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
Not so much "the singularity is near" as "the end is nigh", Kurzweil's suggestion that we will someday merge our intelligence with that of machines opens the door to the kind of dystopia that is the fare of many a sci-fi novel.
Even the briefest glance at today's computer networks, with their spam, phishing, botnets, viruses, etc. should tip the average person off to exactly how bad an idea it would be to slave or outsource functions of our brains to electronic augments. Yet Kurzweil argues that those people who don't upgrade (or Luddites as he calls them) will probably end up on "Nature Reserves" set aside by the world-dominating human-machine combine as it converts first the Earth, then the other planets, into pure computer power.
And all this is to happen within a century. Perhaps we should all be stocking up on ray-bans and leather coats, just in case.
Even the briefest glance at today's computer networks, with their spam, phishing, botnets, viruses, etc. should tip the average person off to exactly how bad an idea it would be to slave or outsource functions of our brains to electronic augments. Yet Kurzweil argues that those people who don't upgrade (or Luddites as he calls them) will probably end up on "Nature Reserves" set aside by the world-dominating human-machine combine as it converts first the Earth, then the other planets, into pure computer power.
And all this is to happen within a century. Perhaps we should all be stocking up on ray-bans and leather coats, just in case.
Posted by Dumbfounded on 05/06 at 07:43 AM
Well, plug me in!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/06 at 08:36 AM
Leave me in the "Nature Reserve" and I'll be quite happy there.
Posted by vegas_girl in Vegas Baby!! on 05/06 at 02:33 PM
i want the blue pill! i don't wanna know!!!
Posted by patty on 05/06 at 03:10 PM
I look great in leather.
Posted by Nethie on 05/06 at 07:11 PM
ooooo nethie is a leather girl! 
Posted by patty on 05/06 at 08:29 PM
It's not if... it's when. 
Posted by SeriouslyJane in Sparks, NV on 05/06 at 10:15 PM
It frightens me that I use his OCR software. I didn't know he'd gone insane. This has to be the same Ray Kurzweil, right? I mean, how many Ray Kurzweils are running around? Now I sort of want to see this movie.
Posted by Carin in http://vomitcomet.blogspot.com on 05/08 at 06:16 AM
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