{"id":9071,"date":"2016-05-06T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grupobcc.com\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2016-05-06T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:18:18","slug":"david-orban-well-live-forever-and-well-become-cyborgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grupobcc.com\/en\/news\/david-orban-well-live-forever-and-well-become-cyborgs\/","title":{"rendered":"David Orban, \u201cWe\u2019ll Live Forever and We\u2019ll Become Cyborgs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Super-smart droids will work instead of us. Whereas we will be data sets with the ability to reincarnate at will. The future according to Singularity University\u2019s David Orban.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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\u201cWe shall be living side by side with robots and droids who will be more intelligent than people. While they work in our place, the new human race will spend its time exploring the unknown potential of the mind. People\u00a0will become cyborgs, with capabilities enhanced by technology. We\u2019ll be able to live forever by transferring our brains (including the sentient self) into other bodies and to explore outer space by transmitting our grey matter at the speed of light as if it were bits travelling through the ether.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the future awaiting us in the next 50 years according to David Orban, the founder of countless successful hi-tech companies, but above all a visionary and professor at Singularity University, a \u201cfactory\u201d of geniuses and start-ups funded by Google, founded in 2008 by scientist Ray Kurzweil and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis in the heart of California\u2019s Silicon Valley. Orban is not a sci-fi author, but a world-famous business manager and futurologist, who spends a third of his time in the air travelling to the venues of the top technology conferences. As he himself says, he is \u201can ambassador for tomorrow living in the present\u201d. Panorama met him during a brief trip to Milan to address the Iab seminar on digital communication. His paper was entitled \u201cThe future is 10 years early\u201d.<\/p>\n

When you talk to Orban, your immediate impression is that you are in the company of Captain Kirk from TV\u2019s Star Trek, just before a teletransportation into new worlds from the starship Enterprise. As soon as you shake his hand, he invites you to feel the place between his index finger and his thumb where he has had a chip implant. \u201cI\u2019m a cyborg,\u201d he tells Panorama. \u201cThe chip has all the codes I need to make payments in bitcoin, the digital currency of the internet. With the capabilities of the chip I can do many other things besides transferring money. I can pick up a car in a car-sharing system, go through the subway turnstiles or through the turnstiles at work. In the future, I could send information to another person with the same chip implant, as easily and quickly as a computer sends an e-mail today using wifi. The chip could measure my body functions, formulate Google queries and send the answers directly to my brain.\u201d But the main reason why Orban is the first human being to have the implant (his dog also has the same chip) is to test its social acceptance. \u201cWith this implant I want to develop a debate with people who think we shouldn\u2019t be allowed to become technologically enhanced beings.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is because Orban\u2019s chief concern is that the future could see forms of technological racism leading to wars of supremacy. \u201cWe\u2019ll have to learn to live side by side with a new species of humanoids whose artificial intelligence makes them smarter than us,\u201d he tells Panorama. \u201cWill we manage to accept them? Or will there be a conflict? We need to be asking ourselves these questions soon.\u201d Orban points out that \u201cthe last one hundred years have seen greater technological progress than the previous one thousand years. If computer processing power continues to increase at the same speed, we\u2019ll have computers that are more powerful than a human brain as early as 2025. And by 2045, with this exponential growth, man will have built thinking machines with the capabilities of 10 billion human brains put together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet it won\u2019t all have been due to human effort. Artificial intelligence \u201cis able to evolve and self-improve much faster than human intelligence.\u201d In Orban\u2019s vision, the singularity \u2013 the moment at which technological progress surpasses the understanding of previous generations \u2013 is approaching and will occur in the first half of the 21st century. The singularity is the simultaneous acceleration of four key technologies: genetics, nanotechnology, robotics and, above all, artificial intelligence. A technological boom that will re-write the human parabola, from \u201cyou are born, you work, you die\u201d to, according to Orban, \u201cyou are born, you no longer work, and you live forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this scenario, the workforce will consist of machines that work in offices or factories instead of us. Meanwhile, the content of our brains (including our personality) will survive our physical bodies. \u201cWe\u2019ll be able to transfer our \u201cself\u201d to a memory, in the same way that you copy a document to a USB stick,\u201d Orban continues, \u201cand we\u2019ll be able to go on living in a new bionic body. Our memories and our knowledge will become bits that can be transmitted through the ether, so we won\u2019t need trains, planes or cars to travel. We\u2019ll even be able to delete negative experiences and just keep our happy memories. We shan\u2019t have to go through physical death to live a parallel life. Rather like Avatar, it will be like going to sleep, we could close our eyes in Milan and wake up (in a different body) in New York. Or, why not, on another planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that point, the very concept of humanity will have to be re-thought out. Religions too will have their job cut out to understand and accept this new evolutionary advance, where humans\u00a0will be able to choose eternal life. \u201cThe world will be populated by robots that are more intelligent than people, by human beings and by cyborgs with human brains.\u201d Fascinating or frightening, this is what lies ahead. \u201cExponential acceleration has begun. And it can\u2019t be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super-smart droids will work instead of us. Whereas we will be data sets with the ability to reincarnate at will. The future according to Singularity University\u2019s David Orban.         \u201cWe shall be living side by side with robots and droids who will be more intelligent than people. While they work in our… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n