"So if computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to human intelligence." Computers are getting more and more powerful as time goes on. Within this article the computer is able to produce music which compares to Brave New World and the fact that computers/machinery are able to produce humans and also help train the humans to think the way the higher authorities want them to think. In this article, the main idea is how computers are starting to control everything. They are becoming more like the human brain, they hold so much information. The Singularity is a type of machine that would be able to combine the human's intelligence to combine with a computer, which gives more information to the human. The would then become smarter than the average person. For certain reasons, it would be a good thing because no one would every struggle in school anymore, people would exceed in all things of learning. It could also be a bad thing though. There would never be a reason to have types of challenges like spelling bee's and decathlons because everyone is just as smart as one another so there wouldn't be much of a competition. Being an authentic human means being different and unique when compared to everyone else in the world. If we were all linked to a computer then we would never be authentic. We would loss all of the qualities we had before. Bernard in Brave New World feels the need to be an individual when he is compared to everyone else. He is uphappy and feels the need to have freedom and also the right to his own opinion. "The difficult thing to keep sight of when you're talking about the Singularity is that even though it sounds like science fiction, it isn't, no more than a weather forecast is science fiction." The world in 1965, is filled with computers controlling everyone and also science being a main subject for the people to understand.
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