This idea of singularity may be crazy and seem to be impossible but I believe that it can happen and as a matter of fact is happening as we speak. "Computers are getting faster. Everybody knows that. Also, computers are getting faster faster — that is, the rate at which they're getting faster is increasing."(Grossman). We have advanced so much over the years but mostly in the past two decades, and before we know it there will be nothing but technology and everything will be done for us by a click of a button. Although this may sound like a good thing it isnt because I agree that technology will become so efficient that eventually "the computers will turn on humanity and annihilate us"(Grossman) or more easily stated they will take over us and our lives. The whole idea of humanity will be gone because there will be none.
In the story Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bernard begins to read some romantic words from the great William Shakespeare to Linda but for them it is weird because they are not used to this kind of affection and have no idea what it means, "the strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder" (Huxley Ch 8),I feel like Bernard is trying to keep in touch with humanity before he loses it all together, he knows that this romanticizing should be normal but is not exactly sure why.
Brave New Word and this article tie together in many ways but one most importantly that we must be conciencious of the advancement of technology around us and to not lose sense of what humanity is. Don't always rely on technology because if we continue to progress the way we have been technology will only need to rely on itself, therefore the elimination of civilization.http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,,686757398001_2033145,00.html
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