I recently reviewed a new book from Ray Kurzweil, the Silicon Valley tech-evangelist who thinks that, someday alarmingly soon, mankind is due to merge its mind with the global internet and become a kind of super-powerful God on Earth, in an event he calls “The Singularity”. In my review, I sceptically cited the following predictive passage from Ray’s latest text, The Singularity Is Nearer:
Augmented reality will be projected constantly onto our retinas from our glasses and contact lenses. It will also resonate in our ears… Most of its functions and information will not be explicitly requested, but our ever-present AI assistants will anticipate our needs by watching and listening in on our activities. In the 2030s, medical nanorobots will begin to integrate these brain extensions directly into our nervous systems.
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