Humans have tried to make their life easier and better, and this is usually what is called technology today. As technology breeds technology, the rate that better and smarter things coming out is increasing rapidly. So far, there are things that the new technology have not been able to do, such as express itself in art , or be able to appreciate art. Those are found in the human mind alone, or was. When Kurzweil created the computer that was able to produce music he really blurred the line between organic intelligence and artificial intelligence. (Time Magazine) that was probably the first time that the two mixed in a way that could be seen as significance. It leads to the idea of what happens if they are able to understand what is produced. They are then almost able to work and think on a level that was reserved for humans. If you take this farther, there will come a time when it is not the humans who are the smartest, and then the idea is that humans will either merge to stay alive with the machine, or the new advancements in computers and technology may wipe the human race out. If a merge occurred with the technology, then it may be possible that everything that could or would be thought would be stored in a giant data storage so that everyone knows everything. In A Brave New World, the society takes out the humanity by programming humans, and then go and almost destroy the diversity through the manufacturing process. While any growth in technology is neutral, the outcome of the added affect cannot be seen as good or bad yet.
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