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Kobi · 11-05-2011, 07:48 AM

Transcendent Man.... the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is a scientist and artificial intelligence specialist who is working towards and predicting singularity in the future....meaning technology will conquer biology and cyborgish state will follow.

I cant decide if this is intriguing or disturbing. I can see the technological developments emerging for which there are pros and cons. Biological cures in the form of technology the size of a blood cell implanted to "fix" us from the inside out is intriguing.

Yet, to see humans as we now know them to become obsolete in favor of AI driven beings who live in a virtual rather than a real world seems bizarre to me.

So much of this movie focuses on "intelligence", the development of, the expansion of, the benefits of....yet there is conspicuously no existence of humanity. After all, we mere humans are more than just our brains, arent we?

I'm having Lawnmower Man flashbacks here.

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