All Things Digital’s Arik Hesseldahl had the distinct pleasure of serving as moderator for a discussion between Ray Kurzweil and Ted Enriquez. Happily the event was recorded for posterity. Note: The video features a talk from Enriquez, then Kurzweil and then their moderated discussion.
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I mean it’s gonna happen eventually… we will merge with our technology. I mean we have done it already to a degree, I’m sure most of you are constantly on the net, I know I am. Eventually we will seamlessly hook into the net. I am ambivalent whether this will positive or not. It’ll be similar to how it is today. Some people will have fantastic experiences in the culture of man-machine integration, some people will get screwed…
around 30:00 he acknowledges that technologies can be human evolutionary extensions
wheel = foot
internet = central nervous system, some brain functions
he also notes that
humans are not good at logical reasoning
and are fixated on pattern recognition, to the exclusion of all else
hence
it will take a long time, if ever, before humans realized they’ve been turned into cyborgs
something that began with the wheel and started growing exponentially during the Industrial Revolution
I see those life-extending elixirs Kurzweil has been drinking haven’t slowed down the aging process.