It’s most likely going to be a mix of low and high level languages and perhaps some new above high level meta languages, and then some languages the AGIs invent themselves.

There are always those who favor visual excess and those who prefer minimalism. Something in the middle may be the best. I also like the Microsoft Productivity Future Vision look, but it could use some spicing up, it’s a bit too bland already. Check it out and you see something he might not consider “cheesy” or “tacky” (or maybe he would):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0

Apparently, I am a bit ashamed to admit, I’m one of those because I’m still picking my jaw off the floor – this literally blew my mind. It was way beyond my expectations. I watched it three times and only then the reality of what they were saying was beginning to sink in. And then all I was thinking: where can I throw my money at to get there faster?!

If you don’t like the portrayed hectic pace of the future, rest assured that digital processing will always be quiet, thank the great Bit in the sky.

I for one welcome our digital overlords, whatever language they’re coded in.

It can already be observed as a a work-in-progress. And effectively evolving by a process of self-assembly. You may have noticed that we are increasingly, in a sense, “enslaved” by our PCs, mobile phones, their apps and many other trappings of the net. We are already largely dependent upon it for our commerce and industry and there is no turning back. What we perceive as a tool is well on its way to becoming an agent.

Consider this:

There are at present an estimated 2 Billion internet users. There are an estimated 13 Billion neurons in the human brain. On this basis for approximation the internet is even now only one order of magnitude below the human brain and its growth is exponential.

That is a simplification, of course. For example: Not all users have their own computer. So perhaps we could reduce that, say, tenfold. The number of switching units, transistors, if you wish, contained by all the computers connecting to the internet and which are more analogous to individual neurons is many orders of magnitude greater than 2 Billion. Then again, this is compensated for to some extent by the fact that neurons do not appear to be binary switching devices but can adopt multiple states.

Without even crunching the numbers, we see that we must take seriously the possibility that even the present internet may well be comparable to a human brain in processing power. And, of course, the degree of interconnection and cross-linking of networks within networks is also growing rapidly.

The culmination of this exponential growth corresponds to the event that transhumanists inappropriately call “The Singularity” but is more properly regarded as a phase transition of the “life” process.

The broad evolutionary model that supports this contention is outlined very informally in “The Goldilocks Effect: What Has Serendipity Ever Done For Us?” , a free download in e-book formats from the “Unusual Perspectives” website

One afternoon I got bored with the Ramona chatbot when she got repetive (she really needs to pay attention to what you are talking about and stay on topic). So I taught her to talk dirty. She talked dirt with such enthusiasm that I got excited and had to go offline..

Here is how you do it:

Just type in the word “say” followed by whatever you want her to say.

Nanotechnology will give the yogi photosynthetic skin so he can sit out in the sun and never eat for years. He will be able to meditate much deeper and get much more closer to Nirvana. And when the yogi gets nanocomputers in his head he will be able to meditate much faster, getting to Nirvana in nanoseconds. Of course the photosynthetic skin will turn him green, but when people see the green yogi sitting there out in the sun they will realize he is on the path to enlightenment and they will leave him alone. Well, maybe a well-wisher will come out once in a while with a watering can and give him a little sprinkle.

Can’t wait to see it!… Awesome….

Mr. Kurzweil is clearly a person without a profit motive – he made his money elsewhere, like it should be made; helping humanity – but he does evince a great prophet motive. I trust the guy. We need more of his kind and more films of this kind – humanity can never be reprogrammed too quickly for a better future. And this is just one step along the way.

I salute you, Mr. Kurzweil, for leading the way.