Merging with machines

 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 jobs
Works 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.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1325255/Your-children-live-man-merge-machines-But-save-destroy-us.html

Ray Kurzweil, The coming Merging of Mind and Machine, www.scientificamerican.com, Mar 23 2009,http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/merging-of-mind-and-machine/