Experts say that the symbiosis of people and cars waiting for us already this century

The technical director of Google Inc. Ray Kurzweil says that in the future the biological part of the body to replace mechanical, and it should happen by 2100 the ninth year - the statement was made in his speech at the international conference «Global Futures 2045" in New York.



Kurzweil predicted: "If we can play the function of the brain is the most cautious forecasts of the volume of calculations, we can expand our intelligence billions of times».

Singularity called "digital immortality" because identity and the mind can ever be stored on digital media, even when the person dies. Kurzweil said that it will happen in the course of further development of neural engineering, and spoke about the recent successful attempts to simulate the brain and the development of technology capable of performing biological functions.



For example, the development, is to introduce into the brain implants to allow using electrical stimulation of the neural connections of the brain back to deaf people and the hearing to enable the recovery of motor skills in the event of damage to the nervous system. And doctors at Cornell University with the help of three-dimensional printing created an ear prosthesis: shell manufactured from hard plastic, and then filled the superdense collagen gel in which the implanted cartilage cells.



Rotblatt Martin, executive director of the company «United Therapeutics», put forward the idea of ​​creating a "mental clones": "It will be a version of" electronic rights ", which will be able to live forever, creating a" mental files "containing the properties of the individual." Rotblatt stated that it will work with the help of a kind of "software of consciousness» (mindware): «The Huffington Post» predicts that developers mindware will be successful more than a thousand Google.

via factroom.ru