Technology is always changing, always improving, and always evolving. Whether or not the vast steps being taken in the advancement of technology are beneficial still remains unknown. In Lev Grossman's article "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal" there are some very fascinating predictions being made about the future. They discuss the topic of singularity, mans eventual merging with technology. I believe that if we continue to further technology, especially at the rate in which we are, it will eventually over take us and we will end up serving technology. In my opinion, everyone has already begun to rely on technology too much as it is, including myself, that if we were to throw things such as artificial intelligence into the picture humans would take it for granted, as we do now. The movie Walle is a perfect example of all of this; technology had become too advanced for even the machines to the point that it they had to live in a spaceship outside of Earth to prevent severe problems. People these days are just plain lazy, for example segways take away the “burden” of walking, it has become so hard for us to even walk to another area that we need a device to push us along at the same speed as we would move while just walking. Even Kurzweil himself said “Even at that time, technology was moving quickly enough that the world was going to be different by the time you finished a project” referring to when he created his first computer that composed music at only the age of 17. Singularity would make us less authentically human, we would pretty much just be the physical aspect while the computer that was in us did all our thinking, making all the decision, and ordering us around as if we were its slaves.
