February 26, 2011

• Human - or something's - Immortality

  For many years now Science Fiction authors have speculated about Computers taking over our world. Issac Asimov, for example, had the kindly supercomps provide us humans with our own tidy little humans-only universe. Other speculators have imagined world with computers - both kindly and menacing - running things.
  Well, for some years now, the concept has been taken up by serious science. The Singularity concept now not only steers much of astro-physics, but has now been taken up by the Futurists - those who try to scientifically predict future trends. They say that by 2045, computers will surpass human intelligence. There is lot about this on the web and recently Time Magazine featured a popular article about the concept.
  How we handle this Singularity will tell us much about whether or not humans will remain at the top of the food chain.
  I'll comment more about this both here and on Socrates_Cafe.

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