We are creating our successors
Still working on The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil.
These opening excerpts to chapter five (on the overlapping revolutions of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics) are striking:
There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. … But what would happen if technology continued to evolve so much more rapidly than the animal and vegetable kingdoms? Would it displace us in the supremacy of earth? Just as the vegetable kingdom was slowly developed from the mineral, and as in like manner the animal supervened upon the vegetable, so now in these last few ages an entirely new kingdom has sprung up, of which we
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by Scott Carpenter on 18 February 2007 at 4:24 pm
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