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Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in
the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. Ray Kurzweil says
future cyborg generations will be sexier, smarter and stronger |
Ray Kurzweil has made 147 predictions since 1990 and is correct 86% of the time
By 2029 our brains fuse with machines - an event known as singularity
He says machines will exemplify what we value in humans to a greater degree
Machines are already making us smarter and will move inside our brains soon
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 a
success rate of 86 per cent.
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.......
WHAT IS SINGULARITY
Technological singularity is the development of 'superintelligence' brought about through the use of technology.
The first use of the term 'singularity' refer to technological minds was by mathematician John von Neumann in the mid-1950s.
He
said: 'ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode
of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential
singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as
we know them, could not continue.'
The
term was then used by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge who believes
brain-computer interfaces are causes of the singularity.
Ray Kurzweil cited von Neumann's use of the term in a foreword to von Neumann's classic The Computer and the Brain.
Kurzweil predicts the singularity to occur some time in the next 12 years.
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