GigaOm — November 23, 2013 | Tinniam V. Ganesh,

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Towards another big bang? With the advances in AI, brain-to-brain interface, our ability to reverse aging and actually halting death, it is likely that our life expectancy will go northward by another 30 -50 years. This may be a logical outcome as long duration space travel becomes a real possibility in the future.

Futurist, Ray Kurzweil, predicts that in another 2 decades by the year 2045, mankind will reach a point of ‘technological singularity’ when non-biological intelligence will transcend biological intelligence. Technology, according to Kurzweil, would have advanced beyond our ability to comprehend it. Would this be the next big bang? […]