Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Radical Evolution: The Future of Human-Machine Intelligence

If we don't kill ourselves out, the next 50 years are going to be incredibly interesting... it's worth just shutting the fuck up and stopping all wars just to see what amazing things we come up with. Well, we should really do that anyway. Our technology has become so incredible it's worth living just to see what we can create now. There's no longer a need for service-based economies, with our science we can truly exist as resource-based societies. We should look to begin the transition immediately, if we want to truly see the potential of the human mind begin to blossom.

SCIENCE - FTW.

Read this great article by Ray Kurzweil:

Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next 40 years. The merger of man and machine, coupled with the sudden explosion in machine intelligence and rapid innovation in gene research and nanotechnology, will result in a world with no distinction between the biological and the mechanical or physical and virtual reality.

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