Technology and Us in the Future

Great Debates
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Hey guys…

I’ve been reading up lately on the impact of technology on society in the future, and how a lot of scientists are predicting that humans and technology will essentially merge. Artificial intelligence will become so advanced that it will be impossible to tell whether you’re talking to a human or machine, while augmenting our minds and bodies through artificial means (importing new synapses in our brains, having tiny robots regulate our bloodstream, etc) will become so acceptable that our biological bodies will be replaced by artificial materials. The line between machine and human will also be blurred when we upload our thoughts, memories and even entire personalities onto computers for safekeeping, or to share information ala an advanced form of the internet.

Can you see this type of merge happening? Will artificial intelligence ever reach the human level, and will artificially augmenting our bodies ever become considered naturally and morally acceptable? Considering how much we depend on technology, (and how blackberries for some people are almost another limb for some people), will this just be the next stepping stone? Let me know what you think!

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My guess is that it won’t have an impact until someone sees a way to make money off it through some kind of porn angle. Then it’ll spread so fast that no-one can stop it.

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This might be one place where porn won’t drive technology. A female pornstar AI might treat those who try to hit on her the same way real women do. :slight_smile:

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A human body is already a machine, far more advanced than anything we have come up with yet. All machines we have made thus far have been designed around replicating the functions of our bodies, augmenting them or specializing in a particular function for greater efficiency. Humanity will probably enter into obsolescence before the century is over. You’re already plugged into the neural net, the only thing that will change is the quality of your interface. From telegraph, to telephone, television, to desktop, to laptop, to IPhone, to direct neural interface.