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This is some profoundly distrubing stuff. And when I say disturbing, I don't mean it in a scarey, fear mongering way. I mean it quite plainly. The way we live, even the way we think of life will be profoundly changed. The way we live now will be disturbed, or rather disrupted, greatly. Science fiction authors have speculated about how profound these types of changes will be. A century or two from now, if we could travel to the future, we many not even be able to recognize civillization. It will be incredibly different. I do see a future where people and machines will by fused and our intellect will be partially, or even completely, digitized. We could very easily become chimeric hydbids of flesh and technology. What the moral and social implications will be are hard to tell, but I'm sure there will be plenty of debate.

I am also certain that the liberal moonbats will make the move to digitized intellect first since they will need less computing power to make the transition. McGyver could do it to them with an iPod, duct tape and paper clips.

Of course you need to remember that futurists also predicted we'd have personal jetpacks in the 80s, that there'd be massive starvation in the 90s, and that by the 2000s our average life expectancy would be well over 100. Being a futurist is the greatest job in the world, you can make up whatever crap you want, be wrong 100% of the time, and never get called on it, it's like being a weatherman only with better pay and travel on the lecture circuit.

If it makes you feel any better, I actually think the human race is going to take a major step backward from a "human progress" standpoint sometime in the not-too-distant future (maybe the next 50-100 years). What is going to happen is that eventually technology becomes so "easy" to master and manipulate that it renders most physical and intellectual property totally worthless.

Call it the Tower of Babel, Part II.