Technology, everyone uses it, most people come in contact with it everyday whether at your job, in your house, or in your everyday communications, but is it consuming our lives without us knowing? Raymond Kurzweil believes that technology and humans could become one in our life times. In the article titled 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal, author lev Grossman explains that this merge is inevitable, but would it be for the best? Kerzweil says it would be crucial for humans to keep up with technology or else they would soon be obsolete.
In the words of lev Grossman “there's no reason to think computers would stop getting more powerful. They would keep on developing until they were far more intelligent than we are.” (Grossman) These thought might sound a bit scary or make you uneasy about the future but whether it happens or not it is a lot to think about for the future. Kurzweil had many compelling points that gave me reason to believe could happen but the whole idea of it sounds very futuristic and nothing that any of us could really grasp. I had a thought when reading this article in regards to the first automobile. Before cars people rode horses or horse and buggy correct? Well there was time where people used a horse to get around, well now there are cars that have the power of 500 horses. The reason for this is that horses simply got replaced by bigger and better things, how many horses do you see running down the rode? None. There was a world where horses were the rulers of the transportation world but they could not keep up with the advances of cars and were obsolete. This directly relates to the article. Humans are the horses and we are the rulers for the moment, but if technology advances past our intelligence then computers will pass us and become the new ruler of the world. We will become obsolete like the horses and computers will rule until they make computers even more intelligent then them. But the bottom line is we will not be top dog for long.
