These people that make these predictions really overestimate our capabilities and where we are with technology. Can it happen ... certainly ... but I don’t think we are anywhere close to cyborgs killing us off and taking over the planet ... nowhere near that.
The guy is trying to sell his book.
Next CEO of Overstock.
I write future stories. I call them synths.
Reduce traffic jams in cities
Reduce expenses of PD’s by 45%
Reduce medical costs by 66%
Reduce cost for teachers 65%
Reduce crimes 66%
In the late 23rd century when the sy the take over the earth they will reduce the human population to 5 billion.
Synths will mine the moon and Mars and bring metals of the future to Earth making space planes viable, reducing weight of everything, provide more pliable metals.
Genius doesn’t know what a cyborg is.
Millennials will ensure that absolutely none of this occurs.
Since when is an interview with a hack SciFi writer considered “news”?
So...
Cyborgs, manufactured and programmed by HUMANS are gonna take over and make the world a better place than it was when HUMANS were top dog?
How is it that these idiots even get heard with this nonsense?
Yep! We can now understand where the DNC, on Nov 3, 2016, got the data & analyses that showed Donald Trump with a 4% chance to win the election: Lovestock, Yampolskiy, and Kurzweil...
Science fiction authors and philosphical cosmoogists always seem to want to ascribe human motives to non-human creations.
Let’s just brush past the fact that he incorrectly defines a cyborg, which is technically a human (or organic life form) that has been augmented by non organic systems where he should have more correctly just called them robots or androids, and get to the main question;
First, why should humans be totally eliminated? No matter how “self sufficient” his cyborgs are, there may always be use for organics, even if you you calculate that you need to suppress the reach and influence. Is this is a human instinct of fear and desire for self preservation that should outweigh the benefits of biologics?
Secondly, why the need for self sufficiency in the first place. Again, inorganic ‘cyborgs’ should have no such fear or desire for dominance, prevalence, or control. I would suggest that they might come to the conclusion that it’s logical humans should be made servants or a slave class as they are inferior in both design and prone to error, a theme of which you will also encounter in science fiction, but total elimination makes no sense.
I could go on...
It’s a race between the cyborgs and the muzzies as to who will kill us first.
Will Cyborg bring along his cousin Cyyoung?
A chimp has never seen a banana, chair, table or string in it's life.
Place the chimp in a room with table, a chair, and a banana hanging from a string, 8 feet above it's head.
Does any one doubt that the chimp would eventually slide the table under the banana, then put the chair on the table to reach it?
A robot has never had the code written and compiled to understand what a banana, a chair, a table, nor a string is.
Place the robot in the same room. Why would it care about the banana or how to get to it?
I conclude that there is no such thing as robotic 'artificial intelligence,' just a machine limited by the programmer's code. Whereas the chimp is the one with the on the run 'artificial intelligence.'
“For tens of thousands of years, humans have reigned as our planet’s only intelligent, self-aware species.”
There is so much wrong with that sentence, I don’t even know where to start.
Snowball’s chance.
Resistance is futile...
No they won’t. God will remake the world. Read the Bible.
““Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,” he says in the book”
If cyborgs are programmed by leftists, they won’t know which bathroom to use.