Successfully controlling or instructing machines and computers, just by thinking the right commands is already in the realm of science (2015 DARPA BMI research). Imagine the advances we’ll see in a decade. Thought based communication? Multi-location existence? Or, the Matrix?
There may soon be a time, when evolved Quantum Computers clubbed with Artificial Intelligence (AI) programming would surpasses a human’s ability to think, process information and make consequence-based decisions. Where do you think this tech will take us?
If a computer can pass the Turing Test, is it smart enough to be called an AI?
Where are all the aliens, extraterrestrials and off world beings?
Water management through decentralization, harvesting, cleaning and ‘down-up distribution’. Survival on Earth, begins and ends with water, its usage and the responsibility of maintaining it as a resource available to all. Solving the problem of managing water, would be a starting point to getting around to all the other massively ‘wicked problems’ of the world.
What would a realistic timeline for directed human evolution be? What would the milestones be?
Universal education may be key to rapidly bridging the vast socio-economic divide in India.