Posted on 04/22/2006 3:47:09 PM PDT by Dark Skies
Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist, has stumbled on a discovery of earth-shattering importance. It is the arrival of "singularity," and according to him it will happen in 2045.
"Gradually," he writes at the beginning of "The Singularity Is Near," "I've become aware of a transforming event looming in the first half of the 21st century the impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and aspect of human life, from sexuality to spirituality."
Singularity, Kurzweil says, is a development "representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability" and a "radical upgrading of our bodies' physical and mental systems."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yeah, right. Sixty years ago, the brightest tech people said that we’d be living on food pills and flying to work in atomic-powered air cars by now.
This whole Transhumanist thing is just the latest attempt to satisfy the inescapable human longing for God, packaged for the materialist/atheist in the form of technological progress. “Since there is no God,” they say “We will create Him ourselves. By merging ourselves with godlike computers we shall transcend humanity and become as gods omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and immortal.”
No thanks, Dr, Kurzweil. Mankind has tried self-deification before, and we all know how badly that ended.
no mistaking that brooklyn attitude, however.
And just imagine the year 2525. If man is still alive, that is.
Actually , he is from Queens .
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.