Five incredible predictions about the future

TIME makes the prediction according to which our species could become obsolete by 2045, as a leading artificial intelligence will take place.

Technological Singularity, when progress will accelerate as it would make it impossible to have any predictions about the future of civilization is getting closer. So says futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil, which told TIME magazine this week. Kurzweil specializes in predicting the time of occurrence of the point in time, known as the technological singularity, when technology has become so advanced that a person will close by the wayside. After the study, which lasted for decades, Kurzweil came to the conclusion that finally can name the exact date of this event. We present here five of the most amazing of his predictions:

1. The computer will be similar to the human thought process, by the end of the 2020s.

Kurzweil believes that technological progress will accelerate in the 2020s. Around the year 2025, we will be able to make reverse engineering of the human brain, that is, to understand how it works and to create on its basis of artificial intelligence. By the end of the 2020s, "the computers will have a level of intelligence comparable to a human." This means that they will be able to simulate "what makes our brain, creating consciousness».

2. Technological Singularity will happen in 2045.

This year, the artificial intelligence will dominate, spreading so that people will either be connected to the machine, "becoming a super-intelligent cyborgs", or we will "scan our consciousness into a computer and live in it in the form of machine code is almost infinite." Another likely outcome: the robots rise up against us, as they did in Terminator.

3. After the occurrence of technological singularity, people become "functionally immortal».

"Singulyaristy" like Kurzweil, believe that human beings in 2045, "will be functionally immortal." Not only because we can move our mind to a computer or a robot, but also through the development of "regenerative medetsiny" that will not grow old. Another singulyarist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey says that's what it reminds the preservation of "old car».

4. We will be able to return the dead to life.

Kurzweil anticipates the development of biotechnology and nanotechnology to such a level that the human genome "will be the only code that can be optimized, and check for errors." Eternal life is to become a reality, as well as the resurrection of the failed organic material. "Death will be a thing of the past. Kurzweil hopes to return the dead to life ».

5. Mankind will win the universe.

When mankind connect to machines, Kurzweil says, we "go on a journey out to the edge of space, turned into intergalactic gods." The speed of technological change will accelerate so that "for centuries, rebuilt and human civilization will fill all matter in the universe." Thus, the meaning of life will be realized.

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