Introduction:
Each decade, several scientists have tried to
predict when the world will end or what the future will bring. Since the idea
of Ray Kureweil ‘s singularity, movies of robots and nanotechnology have given
the impression that robots will merge with human beings and take over the
world. Technology has been increasing and becoming more advanced over the years
and with each step we are getting closer to the future. The government is
improving our economy and also making it more advanced in terms of easy labor
through technology, replacing jobs to make products more proficient and faster
then manual labor. Some are in fear that by 2100 machines will merge with
humans and completely rip us of our human characteristics; these fears will
affect society and have a negative impact. Machines merging with humans will
have a negative impact by, Nanotechnology turning everyday materials into
deadly weapons, Social development rising twice as much between now and 2050,
Chips will be implanted into soldier’s brains to enhance their thought process,
and computers will be built from enzymes and DNA molecules rather than silicon.
Details:
According to Ian
Morris “by the year 2100 our planet will have changed out of all
recognition”(Morris Oct. 2010). The year 2100 is the expected year that
technology will be so advanced that people of the past won’t be able to
recognize it. The arrival of the future will shape the world and its history
into an unrealistic reality for technology and society. Each year technology becomes more complex
making robots more intelligent. This creates the idea that in 2100, robots will
be smart enough to adapt human traits both good and bad. This particularly
isn’t a good idea because they are more stronger and can easily determinate our
world and destroy us along with it.
The idea of robots
becoming more intelligent and will have a Cybernetic revolt because they’re
being oppressed by humans. It is a
statistic that, “Social development will rise twice as much between now and
2050 ”(Morris 2010). Also, “By 2100 we
can also anticipate cities of 140 million people, which is an estimate
overpopulation of the continents”(Morris, Oct 2010). The earth will be over
populated, creating an army of cybernetic people, which also can manually make
the world last for million of years. Poverty will increase because there aren’t
enough resources to go around and make everybody jobs. Instead robots will be
doing all the work while many are homeless.
The US Defense Advanced research Projects
Agency (DARPA) The People who bought us the internet in the 70s is currently
working on molecular scale computers built from enzymes and DNA molecules
rather than silicon. It is said that,
“Computers will be built in DNA molecules making them more intelligent and
precise perfection” (Future thinking, November 2012). A human walking around
with computers in their DNA is very unrealistic and even going as far as
turning them into robots. It’s going against human nature and actually giving
robots more control. Building or creating a DNA makes us inhuman and that is a
negative factor to nature and the meaning of life.
Another idea is
that, ”Nanotechnology will turn everyday materials into deadly weapons in order
to defend people but in an extreme way. “These will be implanted in soldiers
heads giving post-biological infantry men some of the advantages of machines by
speeding up their thought process, adding memory and even providing wireless
internet”. Kurzweil argues that the exponential rise in computing power we see
today will continue to a point where in 2029, machines will be as smart as
people. At that point, he says, people will inevitably begin to use technology
in new ways, implanting powerful devices that augment our abilities”( Kurzweil,
Mar 23 2009). Many fear that technology will control us and procreate our human
bodies. The idea of implanting chips in soldiers speeding up their thought
process takes away characteristics of being human. Society will be able to
genetically engineer their own ideal off-springs opposed to living nature as
God intended.
Conclusion:
Overall I believe that the government will not let
technology rule the planet. Their purpose of improving technology is to make
labor and life easier for all. There are pros and cons to technology, not only
will it make life easier but it will also replace employees and workers causing
them to loose jobsWorks Cited:
Future Thinking,Will men and machines merge?,
www.bbc.com, November 2012 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121108-will-men-and-machines-merge
Ian Morris, Your children will live to see man
merged with machines. But will it save or destroy us? dailymail.com, October
2010.
