2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal

The concepts of this article are controversial ideas but very important to know about and discuss. With the amount of growth in technology, it seems inevitable that man will indeed merge with machine. The intelligence of machines we are creating will soon surpass the human intelligence. We will have to enhance our level of intelligence to keep up with the machines. To enhance our level of intellect we will have to boost our biological hindrances with technology. This will be necessary so we can keep up with the “exponentially growing computing power” (Grossman). This concept of technology growing at an exponential rate is significant because as humans we don’t conceptually understand exponential growth. “Our built in predictors are linear…That is actually hardwired in our brains.” (Grossman). I believe that merging with machines is a good idea. It can make a human more efficient intellectually. We will be able to keep up with the exponentially growing improvement of machines and the intellect ability of them. But the big question is that, do we lose our humanity at the point we combine ourselves with machines? Once we put our conscience in a computer and virtually create ourselves without our body we were born into. I believe that you will not be less of yourself that you copy your conscience and be put into a virtual world. You won’t be any less human because you will have the same “mind”, morals, thoughts, and actions as you would in your body. Being human doesn’t mean you must have your physical body with you, I believe it is how you think, act, and conduct yourself morally. But the instant your virtual conscience you copied into a computer starts perceiving experiences differently, then you are truly not yourself or human anymore. Bernard does believe that there is a place where people truly love each other, in the romantic sense and not the sense that he knows where everyone belongs to everybody. He believes that there is a place where the word mother and father are not taboo words. An existence where intimacy between two people exists and is not forbidden. I don’t believe that we will lose our humanity due to the technological advancements that are being made.