And my flying car that runs on fusion? and the mini Dominoes pizza that you put in the dehydrator? None of this is true. I guess we still have 6 more years until all of this transpires, but I'm not holding my breath for these predictions to happen.
However, I am excited about one prediction that will happen:
SINGULARITY.
The singularity is near.
Singularity, according to Singularityhub.com, is
"The point in mankind’s future when we will transcend current intellectual and biological limitations and initiate an intelligence and information explosion beyond imagining. "
Basically, singularity will possibly be the most important event ever to happen to humankind, and it's supposed to happen around or before 2050. By then, advances in technology, nanotechnology, and computers will make it possible to eradicate all diseases, and prolong human life considerably. Also, most human beings by that time will have some sort of biotechnological advancement implanted in their body, that the majority of us would actually be classified as being android than 100% human being.
I personally welcome it. As long as human beings still have free will, and not controlled by some diabolical superintelligent machine, then i'm down with it. I ain't down with Terminator 2.
And I do want to live forever. I read somewhere that advancements might go a thousandfold within the next 50 years, that computers might have the possibility of mapping out and downloading consciousness. So basically, we can never die. All we'd have to do is find an exterior machine/body where our consciousness will be able to control.
I'm totally cool with that. I want to be like 5,000 years old and still kicking it and songwriting it and kissing beautiful ladies and traveling through space. I'd be known as the Ancient One. That's so badass.
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Actually, I don't embrace singularity and I actually fear it. Once we reach this point of "perfection" that when evolution and change stop happening. We can talk more about the implications of this notion over coffee sometime, and although it MAY happen, the likelihood of having that sort of socialistic equality of mindset and technology is not that high.
Keep in mind modern-day third world countries that we can't even communicate with and the value systems that even republicans and democrats differ even within "progressive" countries.
Just wanted to put my two cents in. :)
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