Fascinating - and scary.
A rare glimpse into the future. At nearly 50, I hope I can hang on long enough to be a part of it!
Better than one would expect
In the first ten minutes of the documentary, I was concerned that it would clumbsily parrot Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" the entire duration. But it did not.
I was also concerned-especially when the unnamed fashionista futurist lady in spandex started expounding on the future wonderment of what is called 'morphic freedom' among singularity futurists, presupposing that in the future we would not be male or female bodied but fashion-inspired versace-bodied, since biology is 'just an extension of fashion'. Although it's an interesting enough perspective, that part was a turn-off for me, because I wanted the bar to be raised to a more intelligent level. The bias on my part is I'm an engineer so design is always a 'nice to have', following the required functionality.
And indeed, about 20 minutes in, despite the silly CGI satyrs playing soccer, the intelligence bar was raised: Ray Kurzweil made an appearance, as did other futurists and scientists from...
Wrong timing
Well all those promising technology discussed in movie at the moment those are immature and would need a lot of time to be part of our life.
It all reminds me excitement from 1950 about computers and AI... but we are not there yet... and those discussions and excitement it started more than 60 years ago...
I am skeptical that in 15-25 years we would be a new society.
Maybe in 50 years we would see something...
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