"Singularity" Can We Keep Pace With Technology?

SINGULARITY

Just what is Singularity? Singularity by definition is :the state, fact, or quality of being singular

However, according to Ray Kurzweil it is somewhat expanded to the idea of merging humans and machines; thereby we are introduced to "Transcendent Man" coming soon to a theater near you in August of 2011.

Ray Kurzweil is an MIT graduate, engineer, award winning scientist, inventor, and he believes that one day humans will be able to live forever.

Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (pronounced /ˈkɜrzwaɪl/ kurz-wyl; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Reference Wikipedia

Ray Kurzweil has several inventions under his belt including but not limited to the flatbed scanner and the text-to-speech synthesizer. He's also credited for the OCR (optical character recognition) technology.

He's authored several books including his most recent Transcendent Man & Singularity Is Near.

His is recognized and has become well known for predicting the future of artificial intelligence and the human race. His first book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, published in 1990, put forth his theories on the results of the increasing use of technology and notably foresaw the explosive growth in the Internet, among other predictions. Later works, 1999's The Age of Spiritual Machines and 2005's The Singularity is Near outlined other theories including the rise of clouds of nano-robots (nanobots) called foglets and the development of Human Body 2.0 and 3.0, whereby nanotechnology is incorporated into many internal organs.

Ray Kurweil believes that technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that in order for us to keep up you will need to enhance your own intelligence by merging with the intelligent technology that we have created.  Sounds something like the Matrix.

While much of his thinking does have some obvious indicators of such we will have to wait and see if he is correct yet again.  To find our more about Ray Kurweil and Transcendent Man visit his website http://transcendentman.com/ and subscribe for periodical updates.