| Abstract: |
We are on the threshold of blurring the line between body and machine. The machines now are becoming small enough that we can integrate them within our body, and they become part of us. What the biological sciences offer is a way to fundamentally change a human, to make them healthier, perhaps to make them live longer, to make them more intelligent, fundamentally changing us as a species. I think this is the first time that a science has been able to do that.The principal implication is that we’re going to enhance our own intelligence by merging with non-biological intelligence. It’s not going to be an invasion of intelligent machines coming over the horizon to threaten us or to compete with us. It's emerging from within our human-machine civilization. We're already very intimate with machines. |
