Why hasn't the Singularity gone mainstream (yet?) (power, advance, physics)
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The way science research is funded these days you practically are required to severely exaggerate your goals to get any funding at all. So take it with a grain of salt until they publish their work and it has been peer-reviewed.
Its a lofty goal but we will know in just a few years if they accomplished it or not if we start using computers to enhance our intelligence. As far as peer reviewed. When I was in grad school I used it and I know it has value in certain situations. Since I am not a scientists at this point I don't only listen to peer reviewed and feel you can get good information from other sources as well.
Last edited by Josseppie; 08-29-2014 at 09:12 AM..
I like the idea of augmented reality, however, so far it has not been much more then a gimmick. Well things are changing and when its more then a gimmick I will enter the market as this is a important step to merging with computers.
This is from MIT Technology Review:
Andrew Maimone thinks augmented reality hasn’t been much more than a gimmick so far.
Maimone, a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is developing a new kind of head-worn display that could make augmented reality —whereby digital objects or pieces of information are overlaid on the real world via a screen—significantly more immersive.
Here is more information on what DARPA is doing that makes us well cyborgs:
DARPA, on the back of the US government’s BRAIN program, has begun the development of tiny electronic implants that interface directly with your nervous system and can directly control and regulate many different diseases and chronic conditions, such as arthritis, PTSD, inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn’s disease), and depression. The program, called ElectRx (pronounced ‘electrics’), ultimately aims to replace medication with “closed-loop” neural implants, which constantly assess the state of your health, and then provide the necessary nerve stimulation to keep your various organs and biological systems functioning properly. The work is primarily being carried out with US soldiers and veterans in mind, but the technology will certainly percolate down to civilians as well.
This is one area that is going faster then even I had thought. It now looks like robots in the work place will be common before 2020.
But are you not worried about all the hacking scandals that have occurred? Target was hacked months ago, now Home Depot and the celebrity nude scandal of this past week. Wonder what hackers would do if they managed to hack into these robots or even into our implants in the future?
"Robots" and computers have been around since the first modern computer was built in 1890 and have been advancing exponentially. We are just at the knee of the curve so that is why its advancing so fast now.
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