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As the Internet speeds up the connection between human minds, as our collective knowledge, memory, and sensations are shared and stored in digital form, we are weaving a new kind of technology-mediated superorganism, a global brain consisting of all connected humans. This global brain is a human-machine hybrid. The senses of that global brain are t
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the transition from humans to transhumanistic human-machine hybrids would be completed even sooner than many people expected. It would happen, he said, and it would be embraced in plain sight as “progress” and the next step in our evolution. Furthermore, it would happen without the long-term implications being made clear to the general public.
Gregg Braden • Pure Human: The Hidden Truth of Our Divinity, Power, and Destiny
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
machine learning is essentially a product of Moore’s Law advances in processing speeds and parallelization.
George Gilder • Life After Google
Kurzweil and de Grey are even more sanguine. They maintain that anyone possessing a healthy body and a healthy bank account in 2050 will have a serious shot at immortality