Futurism

First, I don't think Kurzweil is right at all, in fact he sounds a little over ambitious and slightly insane to me. He seems to have envisioned a future that sounds exactly like a science fiction novel. Some of the things that he envisions for the future sound very plausible, but most are nearly impossible and could never be achieved in the amount of time he has predicted. I am positive that people will not have computers in their retinas by 2009 because that is next year and we certainly have not developed the technology and do not have the resources to widely distribute. I also do not think that there is a chance to instill consciousness into robots, and I don't think that twenty years time is enough to develop something like this. I don't doubt that this world is full of many intelligent people who will make great successes in advances in technology, but I don't think that there is any reason to fear them. On that note, I don't know that I agree with Bill Joy either, we aren't going to destroy humanity with technology. I think, if anything, maybe we can improve people's ways of life, people who are sick or in pain. I don't believe that it is right to hope for immortality, people are meant to die, life has a cycle and if there is one thing technology can potentially ruin it is that natural cycle of life. But Still, I do not think it is possible even in the next hundred years that technology will create a way for people to live forever. I believe that there will be more practical inventions and creations that will improve our way of life but never take it over, nature will always override science.