After a very interesting presentation by Dr. José Luis Cordeiro of Singularity University, I was left with a few interesting ideas about the coming accelerating technological and social progress.
- Genetic testing is becoming faster and cheaper. In 3 years full sequencing will only cost 100 bucks and take 5 days, with a huge impact in ancestry and medicine (think about genetically-tailored preventive medicine). Imagine 23andme going mass market.
- We will go back to the moon, especially now that it is found that there’s water.
- World relationships are changing. For thousands of years the important body of water was the Mediterranean, and until recently the Atlantic. We are now entering the age of the Pacific.
- Robot rights are already under discussion in Korea and Europe.
- Economic, telecommunications and energy source evolution is accelerating.
- The death of death: The Methuselah Foundation.
- Nano, bio, info and cognitive sciences are converging. Everything is information.
- Marvin Minsky (MIT): “Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be us!”
- Transhumanism as a possibility, not only a science fiction conjecture.
Related posts:
- Recommended book: The Singularity is Near I’ve written about the Singularity before. Ray Kurzweil is obsessed...
- The singularity More from Wikipedia. Are you afraid, or would you like...
- Eurovision random thoughts and results Eurovotes2 Serbia won (they got lots of votes not only...