We think about devices, on movable telephones, when we talked about Ubiquity, to the possibility of acceding to Internet from any place. And it is that, although we knew already of the present drug existence to increase intelligence, seemed you implant that them were going to take something in arriving more.
It surprised hours ago the news to me that IBM had managed to talk back the Intelligence of a cat. We remembered then the videos of Hergueta: When the computers can emulate the capacity of information processing of our brains, it could emerge even brings back to consciousness.
We reflected in the same sense about an article of Jamais Cascio on increased Intelligence:
Unlike other species, we will not depend on the natural evolution that increases our intelligence to survive: Technology, pharmacology will impel what us it makes unique: our intelligence.
The scientists speak of which 12.000 years ago of the last one it was glacier (holoceno). He was when he emerged the human civilization and our Co-evolution with tools and technologies that allow us to adapt us better to the physical surroundings.
If the increase of intelligence has the waited for impact, soon we will enter a new era. The center of our technological evolution will be to a lesser extent in how adapting us to the physical surroundings and in major in how adapting us to the enormous amount of knowledge that we have created.
It is the Singularity, defined in Wikipedia thus:
“In futurología, the technological singularity (some times called simply the Singularity) is a future event in which it is predicted that the technological progress and the change of articles of incorporation will accelerate due to the development of superhuman intelligence, changing our atmosphere of way so, that any human being previous to the Singularity would be incapable to include/understand or to predict.”
Said in other words, which we lived is an evolutionary process in by which we and digital systems became more expresses, more sofisiticados and more able on a par.
Danny Hillis would say: “In the long term, Internet will get to be a very rich infrastructure, as much, that the ideas will be able to evolve outside the human mind”. The relation with the Conectivismo is evident, contributing an element more to be able to consider this last one like the theory of the most consequent learning with the evolution that we lived on the Web.
We are, according to Cascio, Co-evolving: we learn to adapt our thought, our expectations to those digital systems and simultaneously our intelligence more and more creates complex systems (drugs that increase the capacities mental, you implant technological like that motivates this post) and powerful to satisfy the expectations with the being Infornívoro:
The term is coined by Schirrmacher, from a commentary of George Dyson: “And if the price of which the machines think is that the people we stop doing it?
I believe that soon I will be able presentaros a translation of the complete article, but as advance surprised the notion to me of which we can see the computer platforms like sociobiológicos systems that allow to rethink three of the most important concepts of century XIX: The Taylorismo (multitasking), the Marxism (contained free, copyright) and the Darwinismo (algorithms search and “foraging” – that I translate like devouring of information).
The Darwiniana perspective is most interesting: The information is an adaptive advantage for the informávoros and the software codifies that it imitates the habits of feeding of the prehistoric man).
Then, returning to the subject that motivates this post, it would be added to the informávoro-adaptive perspective what I read in RWW, on investigators of Intel in Pittsburgh who explained how they are trying on you implant technological in voluntary brains with the aim of helping us to sail the network, to manipulate documents, etc… Surfear the Web through being able of the thought …..
The technology to the service of the human being (we are technology) draws a scene of Singularity that seems probable much more to me (and attractive) that the one that imagines the machines taking the control and even replacing the life based on the DNA, like Stephen Hawking did recently (“Humans Have Entered to New Stage of Evolution”, the humans we have entered a new stage of the evolution).