singularity

    The idea of humans merging with technology is very interesting, and rather scary, in this article. The way that Raymond Kurzweil predicts that "the end of civilization as we know it is about 35 years away" sure is a bold statement, but you almost can't help but believe it. It seems incomprehensible that technology could pass up human intelligence in that short of time. The reason that you almost have to believe this is that you just have to look at how technology has come in the past few years. For example, the computer that Kurzweil built in 1965 that could compose music much faster than a human. With this being all the way back in 1965, that shows what computers are capable of doing with the technology to work with today. That could give them the capability of "...driving cars, writing books, making ethical decisions...", which would virtually give technology consciencness and life. That is incomprehensible within itself and would make us less human because of the idea of not even being able to make ethical decisions for ourselves. If we dont even have to use our own brain and our own conscience, that makes us lose our originality and our humanity. We are all the same and our choices will all be the same. If we lose our humanity and if we let technology become smarter than us, that could end up being our ultimate destruction. There will be no more use for our own conscience's and we will become less authentically human. Like in Brave New World, we will be used as assembly lines and for creating even smarter technology and there will be no need for authentic humans.