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Ray Kurzweil: Humans will be hybrids by 2030
CNN ^ | 06/04/15

Posted on 06/04/2015 6:14:41 AM PDT by Enlightened1

That's the prediction of Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google (GOOG), who spoke Wednesday at the Exponential Finance conference in New York.

Kurzweil predicts that humans will become hybrids in the 2030s. That means our brains will be able to connect directly to the cloud, where there will be thousands of computers, and those computers will augment our existing intelligence. He said the brain will connect via nanobots -- tiny robots made from DNA strands.

"Our thinking then will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking," he said.

The bigger and more complex the cloud, the more advanced our thinking. By the time we get to the late 2030s or the early 2040s, Kurzweil believes our thinking will be predominately non-biological.

We'll also be able to fully back up our brains.

"We're going to gradually merge and enhance ourselves," he said. "In my view, that's the nature of being human -- we transcend our limitations."

Kurzweil, who is known as one the world's leading inventors, has predicted what the future will look like before. In the '90s, he made 147 predictions for 2009. In 2010, he reviewed his predictions, 86% of which were correct. He gave himself a "B" grade.

His correct predictions included that people would primarily use portable computers in 2009, that cables would disappear and that computer displays would be built into eyeglasses.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: google; kurzweil; singularity; transhumanism
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1 posted on 06/04/2015 6:14:41 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Just another indication that were in the last days.


2 posted on 06/04/2015 6:17:15 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Enlightened1

The near death experience.

“I saw a blue light”


3 posted on 06/04/2015 6:17:17 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Enlightened1
I'm trying to picture this happening in Bangladesh.
4 posted on 06/04/2015 6:17:49 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Imagine calling Tech Support for your body.


5 posted on 06/04/2015 6:18:34 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Enlightened1

Dogs and cats sleeping together. MASS HYSTERIA


6 posted on 06/04/2015 6:19:27 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: Enlightened1
Does the artificial lens in my eye count?
7 posted on 06/04/2015 6:20:11 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: DungeonMaster

Imagine a virus that when coming in contact with a human, once ingested turns itself into a nanobot. Now imagine someone can control that via computer.

Zombie nation or worse, a massive suicide pact.


8 posted on 06/04/2015 6:22:43 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: BigCinBigD

They want your artificial lens in your eye to be connected to the Cloud. That way they can track EVERYTHING about you. Because they love you.....(evil laugh)

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/515666/contact-lens-computer-like-google-glass-without-the-glasses/


9 posted on 06/04/2015 6:22:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
Before...



After...


10 posted on 06/04/2015 6:25:18 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: mountainlion

Indeed!

These stories remind me of this verse:

“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them”

—Revelation 9:6


11 posted on 06/04/2015 6:25:25 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: Enlightened1

It will bring a new meaning to the phrase “I got a computer virus”.


12 posted on 06/04/2015 6:25:51 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Enlightened1

I think that Kurzweil’s DNA has already been corrupted and he has only Hell as a destiny.
Purely satanic.


13 posted on 06/04/2015 6:31:50 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats & GOPe delenda est. U.S. Federal government = 1930s Nazi gov.)
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To: mountainlion

I think so.


14 posted on 06/04/2015 6:33:45 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Army Air Corps

This is where zombies will come from. The body ends up dying and some leftover nanobot programming tells the remaining organs to get sustenance....


15 posted on 06/04/2015 6:36:00 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Enlightened1

The Borg?


16 posted on 06/04/2015 6:38:00 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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Hail Tiny Robots! Kent Brockman photo: kent brockman kent-brockman.gif Bow to your Overlords, puny meatbags.
17 posted on 06/04/2015 6:46:49 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: glorgau

And to vote Democrat...forever.


18 posted on 06/04/2015 6:50:27 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

BTW, she played a key role in Obama becoming President. Look it up.


19 posted on 06/04/2015 6:52:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Enlightened1

This level of hubris and stupidity shows a lack of understanding of the true nature of life. Living beings are not organic machines. There is a non-physical component analogous to the signal received by a radio set.


20 posted on 06/04/2015 6:56:00 AM PDT by captain_dave
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