7 Minutes You Won't Regret...Singularity Approaching

Have you ever thought of the possibility that the direction we are taking will someday merge man with machine?

"If you can swallow that idea, and Kurzweil and a lot of other very smart people can, then all bets are off. From that point on, there's no reason to think computers would stop getting more powerful. They would keep on developing until they were far more intelligent than we are. Their rate of development would also continue to increase, because they would take over their own development from their slower-thinking human creators. Imagine a computer scientist that was itself a super-intelligent computer. It would work incredibly quickly. It could draw on huge amounts of data effortlessly. It wouldn't even take breaks to play Farmville.

Probably. It's impossible to predict the behavior of these smarter-than-human intelligences with which (with whom?) we might one day share the planet, because if you could, you'd be as smart as they would be. But there are a lot of theories about it. Maybe we'll merge with them to become super-intelligent cyborgs, using computers to extend our intellectual abilities the same way that cars and planes extend our physical abilities. Maybe the artificial intelligences will help us treat the effects of old age and prolong our life spans indefinitely. Maybe we'll scan our consciousnesses into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually. Maybe the computers will turn on humanity and annihilate us. The one thing all these theories have in common is the transformation of our species into something that is no longer recognizable as such to humanity circa 2011. This transformation has a name: the Singularity.

The difficult thing to keep sight of when you're talking about the Singularity is that even though it sounds like science fiction, it isn't, no more than a weather forecast is science fiction. It's not a fringe idea; it's a serious hypothesis about the future of life on Earth. There's an intellectual gag reflex that kicks in anytime you try to swallow an idea that involves super-intelligent immortal cyborgs, but suppress it if you can, because while the Singularity appears to be, on the face of it, preposterous, it's an idea that rewards sober, careful evaluation."

Source: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html

One thing is for sure, we are depending more and more on technology to aid us in our daily lives. Look around, and what do you see? A population of hypnotized consumers who are addicted to their smart devices, and social media. The trend is taking us to a more prominent "digital footprint" as our lives become more entrenched into the virtual realm.

One can see that if this trend continues, perhaps future generations will be more apt to consider transplanting what we see as our conscious minds onto a digital platform. Technology will take us there, and immortality is at our fingertips, just not as you probably envisioned it manifesting. The brain to computer interface is the next giant leap for mankind. The concept of being able to pull and implant data directly into the brain through digital interpretation of the information is currently being developed by multiple companies. People... this is not science fiction.

This is reality! Just as, when I was a child, the concept of a smartphone was foreign, as to will be the ability to download memories to your computer in the future...