"Our thinking will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking"
Futurist Ray Kurzweil has repeated his
prediction that humans will meld with computers in the future, but has
revised down the time scale by up to 15 years, suggesting that it will
be a reality by the 2030s.
Kurzweil, now the director of engineering at Google, told
the Exponential Finance conference in New York Wednesday that people
will soon be able to to connect their brains directly to the cloud, and
augment their existing intelligence with thousands of computers.
“Our thinking then will be a hybrid of biological
and non-biological thinking,” Kurzweil said, explaining that the brain
will use DNA nanobots to make the connection.
“We’re going to gradually merge and enhance
ourselves,” he said. “In my view, that’s the nature of being human — we
transcend our limitations.”
Kurzweil also said he believes that as the cloud
grows in size, the more non-biological human thinking will