[C19fan]

The anime turned live action movie "Ghost in the Shell" is coming out soon.

[mindburglar]

I saw Gattica. The engineered ones become cripples or cops. The others go to space.

True story.

[PeterPrinciple]

machines will be smarter than human beings.

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We have already achieved that by dumming down the population.

[sodpoodle]

Sexier? As in more perverted?
Stronger? As in body building?
Smarter? As in programmed with ‘facts’ from academia?

What about more spiritual, moral, generous and responsible for our actions? You know - the stuff that came from the true Creator of all?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

OK, so Kurzweil is sticking with the 2029 date. He's a much smarter man than I am, but I just can't see it happening. Moore's Law isn't applicable to bio-medical advances and Kurzweil doesn't factor in political and social inertia and stupidity, which have far more to do with the adaptation of technological advances than technology does.

There's no proven reason we can't get to where Kurzweil thinks we're going, and I think we will. But not in the kind of time-frame he's talking about. Right now, we're in the "incremental improvements to smart phones and worthless social media products" phase of our approach to the singularity.

[no-to-illegals]

Sarah ... Sarah .. oh crapidy

[Vermont Lt]

I would imagine that as quantum computing comes to pass it will be teamed with artifical intelligence and we will be “off to the races.”

Imagine machines that can learn, identify issues and opportunities, and then perform tests and improvements at a speed way beyond that of humans.

The machines will have the potential to become “smarter” than people because they will have a huge pipeline of information in the brain.

This will happen and we will not even notice it. Until we realize we are ALL out of jobs.

[Gamecock]

**Super humans that are sexier, stronger and smarter will arrive by 2029*

I’m already here!

[blueunicorn6]

So that’s what the Army did with my DNA sample.

They are building a bunch of really sexy, really strong and really smart clones.

Millions of me running around in charge of everything.

I know.

It scares the crap out of me, too.

[buffaloguy]

I doubt it. People will choose to emain normal.

[txrefugee]

We’ll be the judge of that. Let’s see these geniuses fix their autos or their toilets. My father only had an elementary school education. He is still the smartest man I ever knew.

When Pol Pot, the infamous Communist dictator of Cambodia, wanted to get rid of his opponents at the universities, he didn’t send the army to murder them. He closed the universities and drove everyone out into the jungle. He didn’t have to waste bullets. They died there.

[WhatNot]

Daniel predicted the singularity years before synthesized piano man.

Daniel 2:43
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

[tbw2]

The Singularity movement shows that even when you remove God/gods, the same memes resonate and take new forms.
* Heaven - we’ll gain the ability to copy/upload our essence to a digital paradise and live forever
* God - an all knowing, all seeing and presumed omniscient higher power exists or we’re going to create it and be obligated to obey it (the AI that will take over and turn the world into something better)
* Hell - if we don’t obey the AI that will solve global warming, hunger, poverty, we will have hell on Earth
* Faith in the irrational - the twenty year litany that all this will materialize within the lifetime of the believers and that it is de facto good
* Faith makes you stronger - get imbued with the power of the Singularity and any type of improvement becomes yours, oppose it, and you’re evil by the believers’ view

This same trend is seen with environmentalists.
Earth is the mother goddess to be worshiped and protected.
All the unbelievers must be converted or ideally die off, though no one has engaged in mass murder yet.
Earth with only the few believers is Eden and they are the caretakers of the sacred garden. Earth with all the unbelievers is hell.

[rjsimmon]

“She blinded me with science!”
And hit me with technology
“Good heavens Miss Sakamoto, you’re beautiful!”

[Spruce]

Until the machines determine the most logical course is to exterminate the humans which pose the greatest danger to their continued existence

[\/\/ayne]

In a world where brains are connected to the internet can non-connected brains keep up? What happens if the internet reverses control?

[Disambiguator]

The anime turned live action movie "Ghost in the Shell" is coming out soon.

Also check out "Mindgamers." They are having an event around this movie on 3/28. It's all about connecting your brain to the matrix, I mean Internet.

[iowamark]

[Billthedrill]

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.