Last month I pounded out a post about the implications of our seemingly inevitable immortality — when man becomes machine, or machine becomes man.
Sounds silly, but myself and expert technologists are dead-serious about that “inevitable” part.
Probably not within our lifetime (if you’re reading this in 2010), though. I’d wager at least one future generation or, even likelier, a couple of generations down the crazy road of technology.
Unless you’re as optimistic as Ray Kurzweil.
This is all to admit my ignorance: When I wrote that, I had no idea the BBC produced a fantastic show called Human v2.0 a few years ago.
The sub-1-hour special taps into the minds of visionaries and scientists alike who wake up and go to bed thinking about this stuff. When they do sleep, of course. (more…)
