I have been looking forward in time as it is my natural inclination to do and when I look to the time predicted by Ray Kurzweil I actually see a “Singularity” coming around 2035 or sooner instead at this point. Just like when most people predicted the genome couldn’t be finished for 700 years, Kurzweil was right in that it took about 15 to 17 years to complete the genome project by using supercomputers efficiently used, I think that the “Singularity” will be reached much much sooner now because of so many people wishing not to die and to be a part of the “Singularity” which might create multiple forms of human immortality. So, I basically see Billions of dollars funneled into creating a singularity that leads to the physical immortality of some or all humans on earth eventually. The money would come from rich individuals at first wanting to see the end of their worrying about their own deaths anymore. Then governments would soon follow since this would be popular with citizens and so much like the space race of the 1960s it would become a race to physical immortality for humans here on earth.
However, like most things in life, I don’t see the “Singularity” as being just good or just bad for mankind but inevitably both. I think seeing the Singularity as being similar to the Invention of the automobile and the airplane and the computer, internet, and social networking, if they all arrived with 100 years of history within one years time could actually demonstrate the extreme change of the “Singularity” more than any other way of perceiving it.
In other words the people who move through the “Singularity” within that first year (likely billions) would be almost unrecognizable to the other people on earth after that. It would be like people from the late 1800s trying to understand present day young people. They might like each other but they really wouldn’t understand each other.
Or another example might be when not yet contacted tribes of people are contacted by present day people. The contrasts likely would be that great. So, whenever you have these kinds of extreme different points of view on earth there could be various types of psychological or even physical conflict because of the extreme different points of view.
Also, when an extreme change occurs in a very relatively short period of time there are bound to be extreme reactions at the very least within smaller or larger segments of society. So, I think that governments might need to prepare for these changes and to mitigate any problems before they occur. However, except for the largest nations I think smaller nations just won’t be prepared for the kinds of changes that are likely to occur. A good example on a much smaller scale would be the "Jasmine Revolution" occuring throughout the middle east right now. Is this a good or a bad thing? It's hard to say at present. Hopefully, the end result will be a better life for all in the middle east. However, that cannot fully be predicted as the outcome yet. Look for example, at how paranoid and reactive China is being because of all this. I personally don't think China will be ultimately successful in standing against these forces driven by the internet, people paying on average over 30% of their income for food and the fact that at least in the middle east between 50% to 70% of the populations of countries there are under 30 years of age without jobs. So, ultimately whether the government is Libya, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, China, Saudi Arabia or any other country where there are not enough high paying jobs for young people, I don't think any government under these conditions can stop what is coming unless they are as extreme as say a country like North Korea is in the absolute suppression of their people. And with this level of suppression they become incredibly vulnerable to nations that are not suppressed in this way in the end.
If we think about what any one person increasing their intelligence by billions of times it might be easier to give an example of this happening to the family dog. Though it might be humorous it would be a good example of what we might see. I wrote the following and called it "Singularity Dog" to demonstrate this change. If you multiply these types change by billions of human and animal lives changing worldwide, one begins to see what profound changes might arise within any one year from the Singularity.
Singularity dog
Singularity dog
2020
The “Singularity” doctors have developed a helmet based upon the original Roswell Helmet which directly interfaces with a human brain. This allowed first military pilots of the U.S. in fighter jets to control their jets without using hands or feet. This becomes necessary in high speed dog fights in High G-Force near blackout conditions. Next, computer scientists realized that if this same neuronal helmet was connected to a bank of thousands of PS3s that it would be possible for a person to process information in completely new ways 24 hours a day. Through testing, the types of people most interested in doing this were already hackers that worked for the U.S. government who had spent most of their time in their lives already since ages 4 on up playing computer games or hacking on their computers or researching through the internet one thing or another.
It was found that this type of 24 hour a day hacker type of person could more easily live in this type of interface and there were also ways to mitigate certain types of health problems that could arise. As a result the U.S. Government now had a whole bank of these interconnected cyberspace warriors to defend the U.S. portion of the internet.
Eventually Europe and China found out about this U.S. bank of 24 hour a day wired up government hackers and created their own 24 hour a day cyber police. After a time people found out in the world outside of government at first through businesses around the world and they also developed their own clandestine groups to protect their business interests. From here Churches around the world began to create their own groups of 24 hour a day wired in Hackers to protect their interests as well. From here Universities began to develop their own types of research into this type of social interface 24 hours a day and began to take this even further.
This at first secretly took place between 2010 and 2015. By 2015 people in the general public started to hear about this kind of research begin done in universities and gaming applications using variations of these “hacker neuronal helmets” began to be developed. As a result it was found by gamers around the world that a new type of virtual reality had been created where TV screens were no longer necessary because the screen for gaming was now inside your own mind much like when one reads a book.
A new point of view about this all was reached and gamers called walking around in a normal perception of physical reality as “Seeing or Walking” and the new internal way of experiencing reality as “Computer dreaming” or among college students “Technical assisted dreaming” or another way of calling it would be “infinite technical awareness” which meant that all the research that had ever been done on anything could be interfaced with in seconds from all human history. So, students researching in this way could do reports in minutes that looked like 500 page books with this new type of interface. Many of these 500 to 1000 page research books started to receive various awards for their brilliance and the synthesis of multiple disciplines that they could attain in minutes to hours.
It wasn't so much that things were very different here on earth. It was just that sort of like a nuclear chain reaction people realized just what they could actually do with billions of times more intelligence than they had before. Yes. It was true that a human mind could only go down so many pathways in multitasking. However, if one surfed the internet like one surfed a wave and moved intuitively and instinctually amazing things often happened. So, just like in all other aspects of life, the singularity or at least the successful use of the singularity followed the familiar pattern of "nothing ventured nothing gained". So those who took useful risks gained and those who risked nothing gained nothing. However, there were enough risk takers to change the whole world within one year. Physically, nothing had changed during this first year of the singularity. It was sort of everyone getting used to the idea. Even the word "Singularity" wasn't really used. People talked more about Killer apps that one could access with the Neuron headband or helmet. It was marketed under various names worldwide. Chinese knockoffs might cause problems because they had no US underwriter seal of approval. Various other knockoff that were clandestinely made without patents also might short out and cause strokes of the users. But generally, if you got a neuron band or headband from someone like Sony or other major game manufacturer made in the U.S. or elsewhere you had remarkably good results. It's just like laptops. If you don't want to deal with any viruses at all you might get a macbook or a macbook pro laptop. And then your computer might never crash and if it ever did that would be the end of it until you next saw your computer tech at least. So, buying a neuron headband or neuron helmet was the same way.
For the average non-supertech person worldwide they might begin to use their neuron headband much like they first used their iphone 10 years before. They did what they knew about on the phone like make phone calls, and then slowly but surely they discovered through experimentation or asking people the other things that it could do and were amazed. The same was true of a neuronal interface to the internet worldwide. The experience was somewhat like playing a game like Everquest. There were multiple worlds, each one was an exact replica of earth. If you wanted specific information from any source worldwide you simply thought about the location as you saw the whole earth in your mind. As you went down into the servers of that city to learn more about that place on earth you had computer translators so you could understand everything there to a greater or lesser degree depending upon the usefulness of the computer translators. So, at first everyone was traveling all over in groups learning about other places and walking down the streets of every city and tourist attraction and meeting other people doing the same thing. Since it was in your mind like a book only completely interactive in that you could speak with anyone about anything you were physically safe. So, people both made up fantasies as well as were very truthful in other situations. So, on a fantasy level and a truthful level people exploded with new both true and fantasy information about every place on earth. This blew down walls of perception and just like now during the "Jasmine Revolution" governments began to fall one by one worldwide. People who had met worldwide through "neuronal connection" bonded even deeper than they now do on Facebook, Twitter, and email and texts because they were physically safe and could share about anything and they shared there minds on some very deep levels(at least the ones who were brave enough and strong enough to endure what may come from that level of honesty).
And so, how everyone saw everything changed in a more profound way than ever before. This was potentially much more intimate than going to church. It was more intimate than anything most people had ever experienced. And this deep level of truth and fantasy was just so addicting many couldn't go back to the abject loneliness of their lives after that and formed online families of people who shared similar views and ideas. So, even though they might physically live alone anywhere on earth they had friends they could go live with on their neuronal net of similar humans. The support of having literally thousands of like minded people to align with whenever they didn't have to do something else was like bliss for many. ANd so many formed neural communes of 10s, 100s, or thousands worldwide and everyone who did this changed.
And so the "Singularity" of the 2020s was likened in many ways to the social revolution of the 1960s where people joined communes according to their likes and dislikes and formed new families and some never went back to their old families at all. Because they no longer had any or very few beliefs they all shared anymore. But these times were not called the Singularity by those younger people actually living it. No. They were called 'The time of awakening' by most. They didn't want someone else to name what they were experiencing. So, this became a social revolution much like the "Jasmine Revolution" and the social revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s combined. In other words the human race basically did a quantum jump in consciousness from where it had been before.
But there were many people angry worldwide because of the increasing pace of changes. They didn't like changes. They didn't even like computers much beyond their cellphones that they needed to make money to live. So these people started to try to exterminate the "neuron heads" as they called them any way they could. So, the neuron heads simply found out who the people trying to exterminate them were and through their neuron helmets shut down every one of their cellphones and any technology that went online or had cellphone transmissions. And they just kept doing this until the people fighting them went bankrupt. But this just further angered the anti- neuron heads and so they got tanks and armored cars and went hunting for neuron physical communes worldwide. At this point the "neuron heads" went back to living alone or with their parents for safety and pretended to live normal lives and to not be neuron heads. But many still secretly drove the antineuron heads into bankuptcy because of all their friend that had been killed at this point who were massacred in their communes. So, the look of an anti-neuron head became being eventually a homeless bankrupt person or dead or having starved to death. And the neuron heads were still neuron heads in secret and became the types of people like a new generation of Bill Gates and Stephen Jobs in the 2020s. So, the Singularity began and the world wasn't ready for it just like it wasn't ready for World War II, the Great Depression, the Viet Nam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War etc. etc. etc.
The first phase of the "Singularity" had taken place. But the Stephen Jobs and Bill Gates of this new generation set out to make people immortal so their knowledge wouldn't ever be lost. In doing this society changed and since so much useful knowledge wasn't lost first 1% of the human race became immortal and felt funny because they watched most of their friends and relatives die and this wasn't fun. Howevever, the next generation decided to make pacts and whole families decided to live forever together. Now remember, the capacity to be immortal doesn't work with accidents. So, it is only a matter of luck how long one lives even with the potential of living almost forever. So, a practical amount of time to be able to live without a fatal accident came to be known as 250 to 500 years of age. However, just like 4 minute running miles all these records would be broken over and over again and then the oldest ones would write books to tell younger people how they did it. So the art and science of becoming and staying immortal passed down from generation to generation. And this began the legacy of the "Singularity".
Some of the other things I recently wrote about the 2045 Singularity are:
Singularity dog
and
2045:Filters
For the average non-supertech person worldwide they might begin to use their neuron headband much like they first used their iphone 10 years before. They did what they knew about on the phone like make phone calls, and then slowly but surely they discovered through experimentation or asking people the other things that it could do and were amazed. The same was true of a neuronal interface to the internet worldwide. The experience was somewhat like playing a game like Everquest. There were multiple worlds, each one was an exact replica of earth. If you wanted specific information from any source worldwide you simply thought about the location as you saw the whole earth in your mind. As you went down into the servers of that city to learn more about that place on earth you had computer translators so you could understand everything there to a greater or lesser degree depending upon the usefulness of the computer translators. So, at first everyone was traveling all over in groups learning about other places and walking down the streets of every city and tourist attraction and meeting other people doing the same thing. Since it was in your mind like a book only completely interactive in that you could speak with anyone about anything you were physically safe. So, people both made up fantasies as well as were very truthful in other situations. So, on a fantasy level and a truthful level people exploded with new both true and fantasy information about every place on earth. This blew down walls of perception and just like now during the "Jasmine Revolution" governments began to fall one by one worldwide. People who had met worldwide through "neuronal connection" bonded even deeper than they now do on Facebook, Twitter, and email and texts because they were physically safe and could share about anything and they shared there minds on some very deep levels(at least the ones who were brave enough and strong enough to endure what may come from that level of honesty).
And so, how everyone saw everything changed in a more profound way than ever before. This was potentially much more intimate than going to church. It was more intimate than anything most people had ever experienced. And this deep level of truth and fantasy was just so addicting many couldn't go back to the abject loneliness of their lives after that and formed online families of people who shared similar views and ideas. So, even though they might physically live alone anywhere on earth they had friends they could go live with on their neuronal net of similar humans. The support of having literally thousands of like minded people to align with whenever they didn't have to do something else was like bliss for many. ANd so many formed neural communes of 10s, 100s, or thousands worldwide and everyone who did this changed.
And so the "Singularity" of the 2020s was likened in many ways to the social revolution of the 1960s where people joined communes according to their likes and dislikes and formed new families and some never went back to their old families at all. Because they no longer had any or very few beliefs they all shared anymore. But these times were not called the Singularity by those younger people actually living it. No. They were called 'The time of awakening' by most. They didn't want someone else to name what they were experiencing. So, this became a social revolution much like the "Jasmine Revolution" and the social revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s combined. In other words the human race basically did a quantum jump in consciousness from where it had been before.
But there were many people angry worldwide because of the increasing pace of changes. They didn't like changes. They didn't even like computers much beyond their cellphones that they needed to make money to live. So these people started to try to exterminate the "neuron heads" as they called them any way they could. So, the neuron heads simply found out who the people trying to exterminate them were and through their neuron helmets shut down every one of their cellphones and any technology that went online or had cellphone transmissions. And they just kept doing this until the people fighting them went bankrupt. But this just further angered the anti- neuron heads and so they got tanks and armored cars and went hunting for neuron physical communes worldwide. At this point the "neuron heads" went back to living alone or with their parents for safety and pretended to live normal lives and to not be neuron heads. But many still secretly drove the antineuron heads into bankuptcy because of all their friend that had been killed at this point who were massacred in their communes. So, the look of an anti-neuron head became being eventually a homeless bankrupt person or dead or having starved to death. And the neuron heads were still neuron heads in secret and became the types of people like a new generation of Bill Gates and Stephen Jobs in the 2020s. So, the Singularity began and the world wasn't ready for it just like it wasn't ready for World War II, the Great Depression, the Viet Nam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War etc. etc. etc.
The first phase of the "Singularity" had taken place. But the Stephen Jobs and Bill Gates of this new generation set out to make people immortal so their knowledge wouldn't ever be lost. In doing this society changed and since so much useful knowledge wasn't lost first 1% of the human race became immortal and felt funny because they watched most of their friends and relatives die and this wasn't fun. Howevever, the next generation decided to make pacts and whole families decided to live forever together. Now remember, the capacity to be immortal doesn't work with accidents. So, it is only a matter of luck how long one lives even with the potential of living almost forever. So, a practical amount of time to be able to live without a fatal accident came to be known as 250 to 500 years of age. However, just like 4 minute running miles all these records would be broken over and over again and then the oldest ones would write books to tell younger people how they did it. So the art and science of becoming and staying immortal passed down from generation to generation. And this began the legacy of the "Singularity".
Some of the other things I recently wrote about the 2045 Singularity are:
Singularity dog
and
2045:Filters
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