I saw that movie Transcendence last week. It got terrible reviews - I don’t know why, I thought it was pretty good. I thought it was quite interesting how a super intelligence may work, creating and using nanobots
I thought it was a good movie as well.
The book I referenced had some “far out there” thoughts, but one thing that was kind of eerie, what if intelligence was created, how long until it could program itself to be come a super intelligence? If it did. it would need raw material to continue its growth (i.e., energy) and how long before we humans are simply looked at as additional “material”. Like I said, far out there, but given a long enough time line, I don’t think the human race as it stands today will be around “tomorrow”. I think we will also “transcend” into other forms as technology advances and deep stellar space travel is warranted.