Ray Kurzweil has been predicting The Singularity for nearly thirty years already, always ten years down the road. So now it’s thirty years down the road. Guess what: once we get to the point where it could happen the machines will be smart enough not to let us do it.
says gammaguy about 3 hours agoImagine transferring your consciousness into non-biological hardware, and it turns out to be an inert canister without even a window.-I can and it is unworkable. The best chance would be digitizing your brain into some kind of computer. Like Max Headroom.
BE THIS GUY over 7 years ago
He can spend eternity as a coffee serving robot.
SashaW over 7 years ago
It will be a copy, you will still be dead.
PrairieDog37 over 7 years ago
Ray Kurzweil has been predicting The Singularity for nearly thirty years already, always ten years down the road. So now it’s thirty years down the road. Guess what: once we get to the point where it could happen the machines will be smart enough not to let us do it.
Ham_Gravy over 7 years ago
What’s with both a wry smile and a pouty lower lip in panel 3 ?!
NWdryad over 7 years ago
I’m torn. Before I reached Panel 3 I was going to say that transferring consciousness to non-biological hardware has already been done at least twice:
Serial Experiment Lain (anime)X-Files
After reading the whole thing, gotta say that texting while driving is NOTHING compared to watching people try to play Pokémon Go while driving…
gammaguy over 7 years ago
Imagine transferring your consciousness into non-biological hardware, and it turns out to be an inert canister without even a window.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
says gammaguy about 3 hours agoImagine transferring your consciousness into non-biological hardware, and it turns out to be an inert canister without even a window.-I can and it is unworkable. The best chance would be digitizing your brain into some kind of computer. Like Max Headroom.