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Visions of the Future – Sim Card Man Visions of the Future – machines evolve both intelligence and ability to intelligence in their brains. It's going to happen, Sim Card Man navigate our world, they may outgrow human in a very gradual way by non-biological control. Kurzweil is quite fatalistic about it all: intelligence that gradually becomes more "We're going to lose this brain race and I guess sophisticated with new versions until you get to we'd better just cope." He sees only two the 2040's and the non-biological machine possible outcomes. There is the "optimistic portion of our intelligence will be vastly more scenario" that robots will be "gentle and treat us powerful than the biological portion, the like pets" and the "pessimistic scenario" – that biological portion will be pretty trivial at that they will be "not very gentle and treat us like point and ultimately that is where the action is." food." 4 Whilst Kurzweil hopes for the first Virtual reality replacing actual reality, option, I must say I find both equally chilling. human beings becoming more like machines, Amongst the reams of literature written about the development of artificial intelligence that the Grey alien phenomenon, only myself, Budd could go out of control… what does all this Hopkins and David Jacobs stuck our necks out mean for our species? Further, what does it and said these uninvited visitors do not, by any mean that we are being visited by supremely By Nigel Kerner stretch of the imagination, have our interests at advanced examples of artificial intelligence that heart. seem obsessed with probing both our biologies Isaac Newton once said that he felt "the great According to abduction reports, they and our mental processes? ocean of truth lay all undiscovered" before kidnap human victims, remove sperm and ova, Should we accept like lambs Kaku's him.1 Dr. Michio Kaku, a pioneer of string and conduct invasive surgical procedures with assurances that all this 'progress' is for the good theory, is a little less modest in his estimation of complete disregard for human pain and of humanity? Or, is there something about our current knowledge. In a series of TV discomfort. Thus, Kurzweil's prognosis for humanity that will be lost in the process, programmes entitled 'Visions of the Future', he artificial intelligence seems to be borne out by something we should be defending and confidently states that, "The great ocean of truth the Greys. What are we to them and how does protecting as though our lives depended on it? It is no longer undiscovered. We have unlocked our home grown form of artificial intelligence is in the answer to those questions that I believe the secrets of matter – the atom; we have relate to them and their agenda for us? Are our the mystery of Grey alien visitation on our unravelled the molecule of life – DNA; and we huge technological advances playing right into planet can be solved. have created a form of artificial intelligence – hands that have four grey fingers? the computer." 2 Here are some of Dr. Kaku's predictions Why They Want to Steal the Very Kaku is full of a blazing optimism that for the future: Computer power is doubling Essence of Humanity exponential progress in technology, particularly every 18 months, so "by 2020 intelligence will in computing and artificial intelligence, will be everywhere, practically in every object." 5 I contend that there is something hugely profoundly re-shape human civilisation for the Special sunglasses are already in development meaningful about humanity, something virtual better. So, have we discovered the "ocean of to act as screens that can download personal reality can never match, something artificial truth?" Is scientific and technological progress profiles of everyone we meet and provide a intelligence can never be programmed with. the route to a new evolutionary leap for constant flow of information from the internet. Words such as conscience, compassion, humanity? A pill containing micro-technology when warmth, kindness, generosity, spontaneity, In this article I put before you the swallowed will diagnose us from inside our imagination, inspiration and creativity, give chilling proposition we are about to take this bodies. A technology now in development some hint as to what this something might be. leap off a precipice and that we are being known as "tele-immersion" will allow us to Perhaps one of the best ways to understand it is ushered towards it by a vanguard of meet others across the world in a virtual reality to think about the special jackets designed in technological progress way in advance of ours. in which we see virtual images of ourselves and Japan for children who are away from their It includes in its armoury travel faster than the each other moving and talking in real time. parents. The idea is that if the child wears the speed of light, teleportation, defiance of the Business conferences and family celebrations jacket his or her parents can give him or her laws of gravity, invisibility and mind control. I could all take place in a virtual world with the remote 'cyber-hugs' through it? 8 Are you speak of the Grey alien phenomenon witnessed, people involved thousands of miles away from cringing as you read this? If so, you have some and being witnessed, by millions of individuals, each other. "Second Life," an online game appreciation of the special something that amongst them doctors, pilots, politicians and offering life in a virtual world, has acquired five makes Kaku's cyber-future look like a desolate military generals. million subscribers in just five years. Kaku mental graveyard. Over a decade ago I suggested in my envisages that "by 2020 there will be an entire This 'extra something' is, I suggest, a first book The Song of the Greys3 that these 3D universe in cyberspace with virtual countries non-physical component to our humanity, a aliens were themselves embodiments of the and governments, virtual schools and component that connects us to a non-atomic highest form of artificial intelligence. I believe universities, virtual properties and stock state not of the physical universe. It cannot, the Greys are similar to the probes we send out markets and virtual families and friends. Virtual therefore, be simulated using any physical to planets to gather information remotely. I reality is going to be more and more like real device no matter how sophisticated it might be. suggest they are universal probes sent to explore reality." 6 When I refer to something "not of the physical the features and dangers of the universe. Who Kaku also points out that merging our universe," I am by no means pointing to a 'God' made these probes? Who sent them out? And minds with machines may sound like science dispensing rewards and punishments, but rather what is their agenda for us? fiction but it's already happening. Deep brain to a naturally implied centre of all effect, a point stimulation, inserting electric wires in the brain of perfection that is definitively implied by Robots Amongst Us and attaching them to a brain pacemaker, is now modern quantum physics. A timeless state in used to cure conditions such as depression. which there is perfect freedom and complete Research is being conducted into computer Before I answer these questions, let's awareness of all options that I term the first take a look at how our own society is chips that can store human memory when 'Godverse'. Our natural connection to that implanted in the brain. So far these technologies moving inexorably towards the creation of eternal state giving the capacity for survival similar forms of artificial intelligence. Dr. Kaku are only used for medical conditions, but Kaku beyond physical death to those who possess it, predicts that in the future they may well be used predicts that, "in the twenty first century we will to enhance intelligence with "thinking chips." can be defined as a 'soul'. enter a whole new realm of mastery. We will He feels that although we might find all this off- move to being creators of intelligent machines putting at first, we may well get used to it when Continued on Page 37 that will begin to rival human intelligence and perhaps even exceed it." we realise the obvious advantages. #0- B'C (65- !),16 A#%A"06> Ray Kurzweil also predicts that "when Professor Kevin Warwick and futurologist Ray Kurzweil suggest that as we get into the 2020's almost everybody will www.xzoneradiotv.com have some amount of non-biological