Ray Kurzweil: Humans will be hybrids by 2030

CNN ^ | 06/04/15

[Dr. Thorne]

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.

[moovova]

I know where Kurzweil can insert his USB cord.

[tbw2]

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?

[tbw2]

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.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Now you just spoiled Star Trek for me. She’s the only reason I watched Voyager.

[Republic_Venom]

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...

[tbw2]

Google wants to create the Borg, forgetting that they were the ENEMY in the Star Trek universe, not the ideal to be emulated.

[tbw2]

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?

[Republic_Venom]

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....

[Nowhere Man]

I always thought Kurzweil is "full of it." There are so many unanswered question like if our minds were uploaded to a computer or robot, would our souls follow? Our souls are attached to our mind and body, if I may to use a New Age term, some use the term, the soul is attached via a "silver cord." I guess the soul would follow the mind, or if we had Star Trek transporters, the body as well and would still do so until God and/or luck/circumstance says, "it is our time to go." That's one theory I have, I believe in the attachment theory of mine but in debates about it, I say I don't want to try it out as a guinea pig.

Another concern of mine is I often refer to the cellphone network and internet as a modern day "Tower of Babel." Just as in the Bible, we are too dependent on these things as well a the hubris that goes with it. Like God destroyed The Tower of Babel and scattered Nimrod's builders and contractors to the four winds in a clueless fashion, the same thing can happen here. If you hit the power grid and communication system in a few key areas it will go down and you'll have many clueless people wandering around wonder what to do. If Kurzweil is right, it will be much worse than that.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Kurzweil predicts that humans will become hybrids in the 2030s.

Yeah...well...where is my flying car?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

She’s the only reason I watched Voyager.

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?

[cuban leaf]

Yep.

I have little doubt we will crack immortality within the next 20 or 30 years.

[cuban leaf]

The human race goes and gets itself killed.

[Telepathic Intruder]

" you never saw the episode..."

Yes, a couple of times. But something told me that wasn't how she normally looked. A little less latex, some hair, and a skin-tight body suit with no underwear does wonders.

[__rvx86]

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.

[roamer_1]

As in the days of Noah...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

A little less latex, some hair, and a skin-tight body suit with no underwear does wonders.

Oh hell yeah. It works for me anyway.

[rikkir]

“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.