Super humans that are sexier, stronger and smarter will arrive by 2029 as brains [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 16, 2017 | Phoebe Weston

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Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. This might sound like science fiction, but Google's Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil has made 147 predictions since the 1990s and has an 86 per cent success rate. Kurzweil says when we live in a cybernetic society we will have computers in our brains and machines will be smarter than human beings. He claims this is already happening with technology - especially with our addiction to our phones - and says the next step is to wire this technology into our brains.

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By the second decade of the 21st Century, we have become used to organs grown in laboratories, genetic surgery and designer babies.

As futuristic predictions, maybe. As actualities, not so much.

I hate to be the thrower of cold water, but anyone who thinks we're going to be uploading human consciousness to another medium in twelve years is just a little over-optimistic, since we don't even know what it is yet. As far as implanting Internet connections like pacemakers, that might be pretty cool, but Google hasn't made an awful lot of stupid people any smarter in the 19 years it's been around. If raw access to data meant anything without the ability to filter and process, then encyclopedias would be ruling the world. I've been keeping an eye on mine; it just sits there and gathers dust. Maybe late at night it gets up and stalks the place stealing socks from the dryer. It would explain a lot.