Cyborgs will no longer be fiction. Humans will become half organic and half robotic creatures by 2030. This is the bold prediction of famed futurologist Ray Kurzweil at the Exponential Finance conference in New York this Wednesday according to CNN.
Kurzweil predicts that humans will become hybrids or are going to be artificially intelligent by 2030. He explains that using robotic DNA strands called nanobots which can be implanted in human beings, people can connect their brains to the internet directly via cloud, conduct fast knowledge searches and thus expand their existing intelligence.
"Our thinking then will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking," said Kurzweil who is an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. And as the internet becomes bigger, people become more intelligent. Or at least those people, who can afford those nanobots.
Apart from improving our intelligence, Kurzweil added that the nanobot technology can also allow people to fully back up their brains. Thus, memorizing will no longer be a problem. One simply retrieves information from the nanobots. The problem now would be forgetting. Or perhaps people can select at will what information in their DNA can be retained or removed.
Kurzweil explains that human hybrids or human's merger with robots in the future is an inevitable phenomenon in line with our natural tendency to enhance ourselves. He said that, "that's the nature of being human -- we transcend our limitations."
IBT Times reports that Kurzweil has become a renowned futurologist for his many correct predictions in the past. This included the current fact that computers would communicate wirelessly, that people would be able to instruct computers through voice, and that business transactions would be highly personalized with virtual shopkeepers, bankers, and sales people.
With human hybrids, that money will not buy intelligence for the fool will soon be a thing of the past.
