MDSA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Personal Knowledge Base, Wage War, Radical Change
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Meditated communication: mass and personal communication using a physical medium. Each means of mediated communication creates its own pattern, its own signature of human behaviour. Expands personal knowledge base and provides ever more information remote from the here and now; information becomes anonymous. Takes our attention from the here to connect to the there. "future machines will be human, even if they are not biological" Humans will transcend the "limitations of our biological bodies and brain" Once nonbiological intelligence predominates the nature of human, life will be radically altered: changes in how. "the intelligence that will emerge will continue to represent the human civilization" humans learn, work, play, and wage war. Kurzweil envisions nanobots will people to eat whatever they want while remaining thin and fit, provide copious energy, fight off infections or cancer, replace organs and augment their brains. Eventually people"s bodies will contain so much augmentation they"ll be able to alter their "physical manifestation at will".