>>No, that dubious honor will go to Artificial Intelligence.
I don’t really buy in to Kurzweil’s Singularity theory. Even Kurzweil is backing off on it a little more each year as the people in the Developed World gets less capable of survival outside of the luxury of prosperity that is purchased with fiat currency and debt.
>>Mankind will be forced to fight a machine race of cyborgs one day.
It won’t be us fighting cyborgs so much as fighting for the life-extending technologies that will only be available to the hyper-wealthy and their inner circle of servants.
You can see that battle in action in Reston Va, as "luxury" skyrise condos shoot up amidst the metal workshops that characterize the slowly evaporating light industrial area. Shops where people make cabinets, fix cars, store plumbing supplies and so forth are going away and pretty soon the folks who have the mechanical skills to keep highrise land working will be banished to the hinterland.
It's a blight on the landscape, really.