In "Sailing to Byzantium," W.B Yeats writes of human beings as a soul fastened to a dying animal. When will we consider unfastening it and inserting our soul house (the brain's weight of experience) into a robot that will house us forever?
Ray Kurzweil is a futurist from M.I.T., holds 39 patents , has 19 honorary doctorates, holds the National Medal of Technology, and Bill Gates (a genius in his own right) calls him, "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence." Kurzweil has published, 'The Singularity is Near."
Singularity: "The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history." By 2023 a computer will surpass the brain power of humans. By 2045 computers will surpass the brain power of all human brains COMBINED.
Human history may no longer be as simple as, one damn thing after another, such is life, you are born, live and die. I can feel the speed of a different track all around me. Just a few years ago DVDs were IT, now they will be obsolete soon. Many new technologies are being tossed to the wayside faster than Lady Gaga at a Baptist Revival. I certainly can't keep pace. I still own pens and lined paper--but why?
While I suppose the world needs a futurist, all the cells in my brain say they are more complex than any circuits can ever become. Am I to believe that humanity rests on metals and numbers? Or is there a componet of life no exponential growth of technology can touch?
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Sailng to Byzantium in the Moment of Singularity
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In "Sailing to Byzantium," W.B Yeats writes of human beings as a soul fastened to a dying animal. When will we consider unfastening it and inserting our soul house (the brain's weight of experience) into a robot that will house us forever?
Ray Kurzweil is a futurist from M.I.T., holds 39 patents , has 19 honorary doctorates, holds the National Medal of Technology, and Bill Gates (a genius in his own right) calls him, "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence." Kurzweil has published, 'The Singularity is Near."
Singularity: "The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history." By 2023 a computer will surpass the brain power of humans. By 2045 computers will surpass the brain power of all human brains COMBINED.
Human history may no longer be as simple as, one damn thing after another, such is life, you are born, live and die. I can feel the speed of a different track all around me. Just a few years ago DVDs were IT, now they will be obsolete soon. Many new technologies are being tossed to the wayside faster than Lady Gaga at a Baptist Revival. I certainly can't keep pace. I still own pens and lined paper--but why?
While I suppose the world needs a futurist, all the cells in my brain say they are more complex than any circuits can ever become. Am I to believe that humanity rests on metals and numbers? Or is there a componet of life no exponential growth of technology can touch?
In "Sailing to Byzantium," W.B Yeats writes of human beings as a soul fastened to a dying animal. When will we consider unfastening it and inserting our soul house (the brain's weight of experience) into a robot that will house us forever?
Ray Kurzweil is a futurist from M.I.T., holds 39 patents , has 19 honorary doctorates, holds the National Medal of Technology, and Bill Gates (a genius in his own right) calls him, "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence." Kurzweil has published, 'The Singularity is Near."
Singularity: "The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history." By 2023 a computer will surpass the brain power of humans. By 2045 computers will surpass the brain power of all human brains COMBINED.
Human history may no longer be as simple as, one damn thing after another, such is life, you are born, live and die. I can feel the speed of a different track all around me. Just a few years ago DVDs were IT, now they will be obsolete soon. Many new technologies are being tossed to the wayside faster than Lady Gaga at a Baptist Revival. I certainly can't keep pace. I still own pens and lined paper--but why?
While I suppose the world needs a futurist, all the cells in my brain say they are more complex than any circuits can ever become. Am I to believe that humanity rests on metals and numbers? Or is there a componet of life no exponential growth of technology can touch?
In "Sailing to Byzantium," W.B Yeats writes of human beings as a soul fastened to a dying animal. When will we consider unfastening it and inserting our soul house (the brain's weight of experience) into a robot that will house us forever?
Ray Kurzweil is a futurist from M.I.T., holds 39 patents , has 19 honorary doctorates, holds the National Medal of Technology, and Bill Gates (a genius in his own right) calls him, "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence." Kurzweil has published, 'The Singularity is Near."
Singularity: "The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history." By 2023 a computer will surpass the brain power of humans. By 2045 computers will surpass the brain power of all human brains COMBINED.
Human history may no longer be as simple as, one damn thing after another, such is life, you are born, live and die. I can feel the speed of a different track all around me. Just a few years ago DVDs were IT, now they will be obsolete soon. Many new technologies are being tossed to the wayside faster than Lady Gaga at a Baptist Revival. I certainly can't keep pace. I still own pens and lined paper--but why?
While I suppose the world needs a futurist, all the cells in my brain say they are more complex than any circuits can ever become. Am I to believe that humanity rests on metals and numbers? Or is there a componet of life no exponential growth of technology can touch?
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