Ever wondered how it would be like to stay in a world as shown in the Matrix, a world where the difference between human beings and machines is almost null. It seems like we are heading towards the best science fiction world of our imagination in approximately 21 years. By 2029, we will have machines implanted in our brains to make us more intelligent, as discussed by a panel of technology experts at American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston.
Ray Kurzweil, a US inventor, says that machines have always been developed to make our life easier and to help us overcome our physical and mental constraints. He predicts machines getting artificially and emotionally intelligent by the predicted year 2029, when a child would require to insert a chip or a nanobot to his brain to understand a sum. This chip will be inserted via our capillaries and stimulate the biological neurons to understand and see things more precisely and act accordingly. The nanobots will adapt themselves to the virtual world through human nervous system.
While it sounds creepy to me, according to him, the machines we are dealing with at present help us carry out our day to day life with comfort, so why not go steps ahead and live with them. But after being one of the group of 18 avant-garde personalities chosen by US National Academy of Engineering, he can dare see a future of technological expansion.
The other eminent technology thinkers chosen by the academy are Dr Craig Venter, a genome pioneer and Larry Page, who founded Google. These high thinkers have come up with a total of 14 challenges that are facing humanity at the outset of 21st century.
This may not sound like an alien invasion to this team, yes sire, but inserting a chip in my head will mean not an alien but a super machine invasion. Would anyone ask these intelligent people, if we would also have buttons, to set emotional priorities for our daily affairs? Scary, huh!
Source: BBC
