1. 1 year ago 

   Brave (new) World?

   http://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_technology_will_trstansform_us.html

   So this Ted talk discusses technological singularity, which is something I have thought of before in reference to quasi-post apocalyptic world scenarios or: the worst possible situation. However, Kurzweil, in this video,stoically delivers a speech about how, by 2020 or so, we will have technology available that will allow us to have superhuman capacities. Capacities like being underwater for 4 hours without taking a breath or jogging without breaking a sweat.

   Basically, all of our advanced technology now will be obsolete and old-fashioned while the computer chips or robotic red blood cells that pump through our veins will be fashioned to what technology is. In other words, it will not outside of us, it will be part of us. I would be surprised if the word technology did not become an old-fashioned word.

   I automatically thought, “How terrible. i’m going to be about 30 years old when all of these superhuman freaks are out thinking me and out performing me.” Basically, all of the information that is “available at our fingertips” will be programmed into the genetic sequences of the generation that is lucky (?) enough to experience the transition. I became a little bit jealous at first. And then I started to panic a little thinking about the culmination of everything I’ve learned in the past 20 years, and how I’m specifically studying Philosophy and Literature at school. Well, if it’s true that all of the information known to mankind will be scripted genetically into one’s physiology, what will the purpose of education be? So, I already felt a little cryptic about my future teaching English or Thought, and I realized how many of us are in this boat…then I thought, there won’t be a need for any job at that point, because if we have the technology available to pump healthy blood cells through a persons brain or allow them to breathe underwater, there will definitely be enough technology to perform duties humans do now, and optimally without a salary.

   At the point of singularity, when all of knowledge is accessible and optimal health is achieved, the only thing one has left to do is bring the rest of the world up to par in regards to health and education. This got me thinking (optomistically) that the future is bound to be a world of humanitarians. This will allow us to focus less on being individuals and more united. 

   I’m not sure, but i know when I’m 30 years old and highschoolers are outperforming athletes and cheating on tests (would it even be cheating??) because that knowledge is already accessible and downloaded into memory…we are going to need a generation of open mindedness. I think that’s where everything is headed anyways. If you look at the evolution of art, we’re at a contemporary stage where we have ultimate freedom and capacity to do what we would like to and not be considered crude or vulgar, I guess the only thing we could do now at this point to be considered those things is by playing an active role in immorality. Older generations have tried to maintain conservative natures and lives, but when the counterculture and civil rights changed all of what we knew about society, the world became our playground. And love became the law. So, in seeing that humanity has welcomed open mindedness for a long time now, it’s natural evolution is freedom of/from the mind. This is where the ultimate changes take place. This is when world revolutions are stage, when the people are at the most supreme form of open minded evolution. It wouldn’t make sense to have somebody from the 1800s, who only worried about social class and worth, answer the door to a robotic holographic child who is delivering an advertisement based on the interests of the household. It would BLOW their minds. It makes sense that we’re now going through a transition into the singularity of human consciousness, because naturally the next stage can only be more evolutionary. We are witnesses to the transformation. It’s exciting, but it does take humility and security.

   Either that, or I’m just not thinking enough outside of the box to imagine what the alternative would mean: fighting the technological singularity/revolution that is surely to come. What could that bring?

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