Much of the research behind last week’s breakthrough in brain science was funded not by universities but by DARPA, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. But even this may not be the end of the story. that technology appears to be expanding at infinite speed’.Īt that point, we will have left the Vulcan mind meld far behind. Kurzweil calls this ‘The Singularity’, a moment when ‘the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep . . . There will be two of you – one a flesh-and-blood animal, the other inside a computer’s circuits.Īnd if the trends hold fast beyond that, Kurzweil adds, by 2045 we will have a computer that is powerful enough to host every one of the eight billion minds on Earth.Ĭarbon and silicon-based intelligence will merge to form a single global consciousness. What this means is that if the trends of the past 50 years continue, in 17 years’ time we will be able to upload an electronic replica of your mind on to a machine. Dangerous technology: The huge potential unlocked by the technology raises frightening prospects if it were to be used by evil dictators like Adolf HitlerĪnd they will also be powerful enough to scan, neuron by neuron, every contour and wrinkle of your brain.
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