This is a thread to discuss the Technological Singularity - the idea that technology and human development is intertwined, it will start with us using machines to heal ourselves through replacement limbs and organs or nanobots living inside us and lead to our merger with machines. It posits machines will become intelligent and self-replicating some time after our medical merger with them and eventually lead to the point where humanity is so intertwined with machines that there will be no distinction between the two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
The most well known proponent of this hypothesis is Ray Kuirzweil, a futurist who spends his time analyzing and speculating on the future of technology. He believes that technological growth will continue to accelerate as it is currently, we will eventually get to a point where human life expectancy, due to technology, increases more than one year for every year of development, leading to the exponential development of humanity along with technology and our inevitable immortality.
It also posits that after the man-machine merger, we will traverse the universe using any and all material available to create more computational power in the quest to solve the universe.
Ray Kurzweil is currently attempting to live to the age of the singularity with strict diet and supplement intake intake as well as a rigorous fitness routine, good luck i say.
It's an interesting theory, and i certainly believe some of it is inevitable, such as mechanical organs and artificial intelligence (of some kind). It also raises the idea that within our lifetimes we may live forever due to this man-machine convergence which is in it's self worthy of a topic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
The most well known proponent of this hypothesis is Ray Kuirzweil, a futurist who spends his time analyzing and speculating on the future of technology. He believes that technological growth will continue to accelerate as it is currently, we will eventually get to a point where human life expectancy, due to technology, increases more than one year for every year of development, leading to the exponential development of humanity along with technology and our inevitable immortality.
It also posits that after the man-machine merger, we will traverse the universe using any and all material available to create more computational power in the quest to solve the universe.
Ray Kurzweil is currently attempting to live to the age of the singularity with strict diet and supplement intake intake as well as a rigorous fitness routine, good luck i say.
It's an interesting theory, and i certainly believe some of it is inevitable, such as mechanical organs and artificial intelligence (of some kind). It also raises the idea that within our lifetimes we may live forever due to this man-machine convergence which is in it's self worthy of a topic.
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