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I’m all for nano technology. There’s a lot of stuff in my daily life that I can do, or think better. I’m more than happy to let a nano bot do it for me.

E.g. nano bot may have a complete control of my brain from the time I wake up to when I’m sitting in office finished removing spam mails. They’ll make me drive better and go to gym more regularly. Of course I’ll be half replicator but it is so cool I’ll volunteer for it.

(I watch too much stargate atlantis)

The story from Ray K is really about a gradual transcendence from our biology, not from our human selves. Just imagine two things. First, an ability to have a thought and being able to look it up on Wikipedia and to search it on Google just by thinking it instead of typing it in or dictating it to your iPhone. Second, imagine being able to truly process multiple streams of information at once. Today a person can’t even read an email and talk on the phone without losing a good deal of either stream.

Inhabiting the Web 2.0 world (forget 2029 for a second) without the constraints of our current biological I/O modalities would lead to a fundamentally different world than that which we experience today. Scary, sure, but also very tantalizing.

“Radical Evoluation” by Joel Garreau is a short(er) overview of the pro’s and con’s of Ray K’s predictions in tome “The Singularity is Near”. However, the scenario I describe above doesn’t even need human-level AI or carbon nanobots, just some predictable progress down the paths of current brain research, computational neuroscience, and wet (ie, biological) nanoscience.

This would be very useful for the conversation economy that seems to be proliferating the web right now. Companies are investing in what’s now called “conversational marketing” and what has always been marketing with better tools. I wonder if the lack of human interaction and emotion would ever be a good thing?

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