I recently found a report from Ray Hammond about the world in 2030 named The world in 2030. Just like many others futurists he talks about the trend that within 20 years technology will surpass humans.
As machines surpass the intellectual capacity of humans, they will become a companion species on Earth, but could eventually turn into humanity’s successors
Some quotes from the report are.
- From 2010 gadgets will get a socalled technological personality. So gadgets will no longer be dump and inpersonal.
- South Korea has develloped a robot which guards the borders and is able to shoot to kill.
- The American Army want to replace 33% of their ground vehicles with robots by 2015. In 2020 this must be 20%.
- South Korea want to have a robot in every household by 2020.
We already are able to copy humn skin and place it onto robots so the borders between humans and robots is disappearing. Is this the future we want as humans?