Steven Hawking talks about A.I.(which is of course is off topic but the interesting part is towards the end) He is heading the direction Doug is(hehehehe, borgism is gonna be ......) BERLIN (AP) -- People get ready: the machines are coming. That's the word from famed British physicist Stephen Hawking, who says if humans hope to compete with the rising tide of artificial intelligence, they'll have to improve through genetic engineering. In an interview released Saturday with the newsmagazine Focus, Hawking said science could increase the complexity of DNA and "improve'' human beings. He conceded that it would be a long process, "but we should follow this road if we want biological systems to remain superior to electronic ones.'' "In contrast with our intellect, computers double their performance every 18 months,'' he added. "So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world.'' "We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it,'' Hawking said. Hawking, the author of the best-selling "A Brief History of Time,'' holds a prestigious Cambridge University chair once held by Sir Isaac Newton. The 59-year-old lives with Lou Gehrig's disease and uses a motorized wheelchair and computer voice synthesizer. --The end-- well there you have it, another human being says were not all crazy for straping wadds of wire and silicon to our torsoes, now if we could just get a company to make a decent display at a decent price we could all be borged out super-human/machine know it alls and all that data on a micor drive too! uh ok if you made it this far then youv'e read too much, good-bye -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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