Into the ‘Digitalverse,’ other Buzzwords

Written by John Abram

Science and Technology Part III 

Reason and fiction have a lot to say about the future, and interestingly, they happen to be the same things. 

Virtual realities will gain in number and use. People will buy and sell virtual products. Man will become more and more immersed in an experience that increasingly simulates reality.

Artificial consciousnesses will be developed. They will be characteristic of AI computers and robotic machines. Made possible by brain-interface computing device implant systems, our own minds will also be online, perhaps even after we’re gone. Tran humanism will re-define death; the copies will seem real.

The quantum super machines that run the network will begin to self-code-heal, self-improve and invent better super machines; the point in time when this happens is called singularity, an epoch in which we may find our fate in their hands. One very popular opinion is it will either be a near-utopia or our very downfall, in that science and technology will either increase our quality of life to an unprecedented level or that they will make man obsolete, perhaps even classifying him as the enemy.

Until singularity and as the scope of computing widens, scientists will push the boundaries of human knowledge into that of the realm of the gods. Extremists even say that CERN could open a portal to another dimension, make anti-matter, or find a “God particle.”

Will we make a digital leap into the physical universe? One that incorporates its programming with its quantum makeup and can expand its reach freely, transmitting information through the environment without taking up its nature? Will mind and consciousness exist in a fully synthetic, alternate plane? 

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