Merging With Machines
By: Jaliyah Spencer
Introduction:
As the use of technology has become so vital to our
entire nation what is next? Everyday Engineers are coming up with ways to make
technology faster smart and easier. The next big thing is when the human mind is
merged with technology as mentioned by Kurzweils. Once humans and machines
merge will this eventually kill the human population.
Details:
According
to Lara Farrar it will not eventually kill the human population. In fact it
will enhance our population. As said by Nanotechnology the merging with machine
process will help us retain billions of pieces of information on a day-to-day
basis. It also states that not only will this not harm us they also have these
things called Nanobots. These tiny machines are good for your immune system and
can help with irregular blood pressure and help repair anything that has been
damaged by the aging process.
A
Nanobot is a short term for nanorobotics. This is basically machines that are
the size of molecules or smaller then 100 meters. K.Eric Drexler created this
idea or term in 1980; they were basically created to fix things doctors
couldn’t fix in just second. Nanobots build your immune system and continue to
communicate if there is a problem in any area of the body.
The
Nanobots are mainly popular in the wealthy communities, meaning mainly
celebrities are able to afford it. According to Kurzweil the technology is just
like cell phones when products first come out only wealthy people can afford
them but after a couple of mouths it becomes almost free where almost anyone
can afford them. (maclean.sa) So after a couple of years or months this
nanotechnology will be available for all to receive.
Life
expectancy was 20 a thousand years ago; 37, 200 years ago. This means that
through our progression and transforming we are able to live a longer healthier
life. This is possible because we are able to get medications for infections
that we carry or even better we are able to send in Nanobots to detect what may
be the problem.
Conclusion:
The final question
now is should human beings pursue the merging with machines why or why not. To
me I would say yes because it would be good beneficially. This could be good
because we would do every thing way faster and more sufficient, and it would
take us seconds to figure out something or do something. We can also have way
more access to things that we weren’t able to access before and lastly it can
help up visibly stop aging.
Based
on the information that I researched I am now aware that merging with machines
is not such a bad idea. Another thing I have learned is that when the human
mind does merge with machines we will be able to turn the computer in our heads
on and off by just thinking about turning it on or simply off. Thanks to this
project I have learned the pros and cons of merging with machines and I am
confident enough to say that this might be a good idea after all.
Work
Sited
Lara Farrar Humans and machines
will merge in future Date Created: July 15 2008 http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/14/bio.tech/
Ray Kurzweil the coming Merging of
Mind and Machine Date Created: Mar 23, 2009 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/merging-of-mind-and-machine/
Unknown What is Nanotechnology? Date
Created: Unknown http://crnano.org/whatis.htm
