Growth of Technology, Good or Bad?

         This article presents the concept of the growth of technology and its possible effects. In this article it is believed that there is a "line blur that cannot be unblurred, the line between organic intelligence and artificial intelligence." This line is thin and hard to determine. What is the line that should not be crossed? In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, a "utopian" civilization is created. However, in this civilization humans work for the machines, as apposed to machines working for humans. Throughout the novel, Huxley describes how babies are produced in factories and how "everyone belongs to everyone else." This article, Singularity, the author believes that the mergence of man and technology can prove to be good. " All that horsepower could be put in the service of emulating whatever it is our brains are doing when they create consciousness — not just doing arithmetic very quickly or composing piano music but also driving cars, writing books, making ethical decisions, appreciating fancy paintings, making witty observations at cocktail parties." This article believes that it is possible for computers to become more intelligent than humans, the super intelligent computers would have the ability to work incredibly quickly and there would be no necessity to, take breaks to play Farmville." Perhaps the reliance on machines and machines outsmarting human intelligence would make us "less authentically human." In order to be authentically human one must have a soul and a brain that was not "created" in a factory or through a scientific experiment. A plus noted in this article is that we would be able to overcome the effects of death and over-aging. However, would you want to be immortal? In Brave New World, the citizens of this very "Utopian" society have overcome death and aging, consequently, when Linda and Bernard travel to the "savage" world Linda is appalled at the old woman who has " sagging cheeks, with those purplish blotches; and the red veins on her nose, the bloodshot eyes; and that neck- the neck.." This article draws parallels to the novel Brave New World in that one describes a society which may be achieved in the future and the other, the novel, describes a society that is already existent and functioning. There is pluses and deltas to a society where technology is growing exponentially.