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.
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Kurzweil is a twisted, depraved man. Supposedly a genius, he doesn’t understand that combining humans with machines is not an evolutionary process, but the creation of sub-humans.
I know where Kurzweil can insert his USB cord.
Hackers make money locking up files and demanding ransom. What happens when they hack your nanobots and demand money or your life, money or they delete your best memories, etc?
The H+ Nano web series featured something similar. A world wide event hits, and everyone in broadcast range of one of the relays has their vital systems shut down, via the same health monitoring and maintenance (heart stops and get a jolt to restart) technology.
The developed world loses many of the adults, though there are now millions of children unsupervised because the implants were limited to adults unless there’s a health reason.
There are hints of people from the developing world moving into Europe and those in the country to the city, because the upper class essentially died off.
All because an inferior rival technology firm that had some glitches wanted to gain market share, and some someone there made the rival implant fatal.
Now you just spoiled Star Trek for me. She’s the only reason I watched Voyager.
My 7 year old already talks about replacing his arm with a bionic arm. We will mesh with machines in the next 25-30 years...
Google wants to create the Borg, forgetting that they were the ENEMY in the Star Trek universe, not the ideal to be emulated.
I have no issue with artificial joints. Artificial organs like hearts, pancreas, etc, will save lives.
Trying to actually improve people and alter them, though, crosses a line we need to seriously debate. Like genetic engineering for improvement as compared to repairing defective cystic fibrosis genes, it is both an ethical quandary and risky.
After all, liberals are saying that reading to your children disadvantages them compared to parents who are too lazy to engage the kids. And now you want to boost the abilities of someone with an upgrade, and the option to genetically engineering the next generation to be even better?
Once you think of an innovation, the likelihood exists that another 1000+ have already thought of the idea, and another 50 or so have operationalized it. I’ll bet you genetic engineering is already happening somewhere on Earth. Can’t stop a thought....
Yeah...well...where is my flying car?
Yet you never saw the episode (Scorpion: Part II) where they introduced Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One as a representative of the Collective to communicate verbally with Janeway?
Yep.
I have little doubt we will crack immortality within the next 20 or 30 years.
If this ever comes to pass, I must stiplulate that when my natural life comes to an end, so do my bionic implants.
Permanently de-activated with an EMP to my corpse after expiration.
As in the days of Noah...
Oh hell yeah. It works for me anyway.
“BTW, she played a key role in Obama becoming President. Look it up.”
Yeah, but she is definitely NOT GUILTY!
I usually don’t like blondes (see Angie Harmon), but that one made my palms sweat...a little.
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