I personally see (some version of) Moore's Law and (something resembling) the Singularity as more important.
Assuming that humanity manages to maintain a high-tech civilization (which is something that I personally wouldn't place a large bet on), the creation of more-than-human artificial intelligence appears to me inevitable, in something on the order of 40-125 years from now.
So, IMHO, cyborgs will have a place in history something like that of black-powder weapons -- prominent for a time, but then superseded by later developments, with the exception of a few enthusiasts.
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Date: 2005-06-27 12:45 am (UTC)Assuming that humanity manages to maintain a high-tech civilization (which is something that I personally wouldn't place a large bet on), the creation of more-than-human artificial intelligence appears to me inevitable, in something on the order of 40-125 years from now.
So, IMHO, cyborgs will have a place in history something like that of black-powder weapons -- prominent for a time, but then superseded by later developments, with the exception of a few enthusiasts.