eliyahu
08-06-2008, 04:24 PM
I am reading a book. The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology. by Ray Kurzweil.
The author is an world famous inventor and a futurist with 13 honorary doctorates, etc, etc. Bill Gates thinks he is phenomenal.
Anyhow, the book is about how informational technology is continually, repeatedly developing at an exponential rate ever since the computer was first invented. He explains how technology has and is currently developing in capacity, speed, smaller size and being "smart." He talks about the Artificial Intelligence that is in development. He then prognosticates a whole lot. He says that, by 2045, the world will become a union between biological humanity and Artificial Intelligence. He says the the human brain will be reverse enginered and replicated, enhanced and even copied by nanobots (molcule sized robots that already exist) scanning the brain. The internet will be completely wireless and without any limit of speed and capacity. Wireless interface among nanobots, computers and other machines will be able to, through the means of holographic wireless internet interface technology, "telepathically" connect people with people, people and machines and the internet, etc, etc. We will be able to repair any genetic problems in people. We will be able to manipulate and control the genome. Humans and machines will be so intermeshed.
There will come a moment called "the singularity." This means the following, in my understanding:
After machines and humans have become utterly interdependant and intertwined in their bodies and in daily life, the machines will have begun to develop and improve themselves at an exponential rate. They will develop AI. Artifical intelligence that will develop to become indistinguishable from a real human. Since machines will be wirelessly interfaced with every other machine "online," any and all information gathered will be accessable and downloadable by any machine or person, this will effectively make the machine world and humanity into one giant computer. The world will become "smart." "Singularity" is when the machine world reaches a point of what we could call or compare to consciousness. It/they will think for themselves and then be beyond outer control. Humans will be utterly connected to this tech world and will be carried along with wherever the machine world goes also. It will almost be like evolution happening at a controled pace. (I do not believe in biological evoltion, FYI)
He said that the normal biological human and human life and death will be completely replaced and controled by technology. We will control everything about birth. All sickness and disease will be erradicated. He even predicts that our very consciousness and mind will be able to be copied, downloaded, uploaded and transfered through the technology. People's clothing will be "smart." If someone has a heart attack, their shirt will detect the problem immediately and send for the nearest robotic help. Nanobots can enter your blood stream (already happening today) and repair any internal problems, turn on/off any genetic problems, etc. He said the ultimately, the earth will become totally "structured." This means that all the organic and inorganic material on the planet will be structured so that it can be a container and conduit of information, effectively making the world itself into one unified computer or amalgam of artificial intelligence and biological life. From there, depending on if light itself can be controlled by technology, earth will venture out into the far reaches of space and possibly time and other dimensions and also possibly "wake up" the universe by making everything else "smart" and structured on an atomic and particle level. The whole universe, or at least the areas that will be accessable, will be one unified artificial intelligence, or is it still artificial? Life and consciousness will become the cheif philisophical and religious discussion in the next century.
I do not know what I think about his ideas. But if anyone is qualified to predict these things it is him. I think that his ideas absolutely do contain some truth. Considering his ideas does give us a more reasonable look at the future. He is not a man of faith but claims that he "believes in the power of good ideas." He fails to fully account for the factors of the fallenness of mankind, the reality of a directly involved and transcendant God, the demonic realm, and Bible prophecy. He is right to believe that absolutely anything is possible through technology one day. Gen 11 shows that God himself believes that when people unite as one, there is nothing that they cannot do that they can imagine. Go also disrupts fallen men when this begins to happen, for their own good.
The author is an world famous inventor and a futurist with 13 honorary doctorates, etc, etc. Bill Gates thinks he is phenomenal.
Anyhow, the book is about how informational technology is continually, repeatedly developing at an exponential rate ever since the computer was first invented. He explains how technology has and is currently developing in capacity, speed, smaller size and being "smart." He talks about the Artificial Intelligence that is in development. He then prognosticates a whole lot. He says that, by 2045, the world will become a union between biological humanity and Artificial Intelligence. He says the the human brain will be reverse enginered and replicated, enhanced and even copied by nanobots (molcule sized robots that already exist) scanning the brain. The internet will be completely wireless and without any limit of speed and capacity. Wireless interface among nanobots, computers and other machines will be able to, through the means of holographic wireless internet interface technology, "telepathically" connect people with people, people and machines and the internet, etc, etc. We will be able to repair any genetic problems in people. We will be able to manipulate and control the genome. Humans and machines will be so intermeshed.
There will come a moment called "the singularity." This means the following, in my understanding:
After machines and humans have become utterly interdependant and intertwined in their bodies and in daily life, the machines will have begun to develop and improve themselves at an exponential rate. They will develop AI. Artifical intelligence that will develop to become indistinguishable from a real human. Since machines will be wirelessly interfaced with every other machine "online," any and all information gathered will be accessable and downloadable by any machine or person, this will effectively make the machine world and humanity into one giant computer. The world will become "smart." "Singularity" is when the machine world reaches a point of what we could call or compare to consciousness. It/they will think for themselves and then be beyond outer control. Humans will be utterly connected to this tech world and will be carried along with wherever the machine world goes also. It will almost be like evolution happening at a controled pace. (I do not believe in biological evoltion, FYI)
He said that the normal biological human and human life and death will be completely replaced and controled by technology. We will control everything about birth. All sickness and disease will be erradicated. He even predicts that our very consciousness and mind will be able to be copied, downloaded, uploaded and transfered through the technology. People's clothing will be "smart." If someone has a heart attack, their shirt will detect the problem immediately and send for the nearest robotic help. Nanobots can enter your blood stream (already happening today) and repair any internal problems, turn on/off any genetic problems, etc. He said the ultimately, the earth will become totally "structured." This means that all the organic and inorganic material on the planet will be structured so that it can be a container and conduit of information, effectively making the world itself into one unified computer or amalgam of artificial intelligence and biological life. From there, depending on if light itself can be controlled by technology, earth will venture out into the far reaches of space and possibly time and other dimensions and also possibly "wake up" the universe by making everything else "smart" and structured on an atomic and particle level. The whole universe, or at least the areas that will be accessable, will be one unified artificial intelligence, or is it still artificial? Life and consciousness will become the cheif philisophical and religious discussion in the next century.
I do not know what I think about his ideas. But if anyone is qualified to predict these things it is him. I think that his ideas absolutely do contain some truth. Considering his ideas does give us a more reasonable look at the future. He is not a man of faith but claims that he "believes in the power of good ideas." He fails to fully account for the factors of the fallenness of mankind, the reality of a directly involved and transcendant God, the demonic realm, and Bible prophecy. He is right to believe that absolutely anything is possible through technology one day. Gen 11 shows that God himself believes that when people unite as one, there is nothing that they cannot do that they can imagine. Go also disrupts fallen men when this begins to happen, for their own good.