> From: Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=619598 > > Two excerpts: > Techies and theologians are talking about the spiritual implications of the > Web, robots and virtual reality�and they think business leaders should too. > > and from about halfway into the article: > > By 2040, imagines Kurzweil, cofounder of Wellesley, Mass.-based Kurzweil > Technologies, "we'll be able to send billions of 'nanobots,' which are tiny > robots the size of blood cells, into the human brain where they can > communicate wirelessly with our biological neurons." Virtual reality will > mix with reality, with some consequences that sound stranger than fiction. > Kurzweil blithely explains how people will be able to beam out their entire > flow of sensory experience�and even the neurological correlates of their > emotions�onto the Web. "You'd be able to plug in and see what it's like to > be someone else," Kurzweil says (as in Being John Malkovich). "That will aid > our empathy."
All roads lead through the Singularity it would seem. And I Just read 'does the future need us".
