#posthumanity

"Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we're headed. The Chans aren't the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack, leading us. At this point there should be little doubt that the Internet is mutating the human species into something completely different. Therefore it's instructive to look at the most extreme, freebased forms of the Internet to see where we're going -- and 4chan is that freebased version of mankind's new drug of choice."

"Matter, just as it is, carries out outlandishly complex chaotic quantum computations just by sitting around. Matter isn’t dumb. Every particle everywhere everywhen is computing at the maximum possible rate. I think we tend to very seriously undervalue

"If you find yourself embodied in a different way, your perceptions and awareness of the world would be changed."

"Let’s face it: we’re not exactly becoming brighter by using Google. In fact, in the traditional education sense, we’re getting stupider, at least with certain types of tasks."

"These kinds of bots -- attention filters, perhaps, or focus assistants -- are likely to become important parts of how we handle our daily lives."

"Think back to that time, what would it be like to be the first human to ever tell a joke, or the first storyteller. Anything you did would be new — and the fact that it was crap wouldn’t matter."

"If the andro that helped McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998 was an unnatural, game-altering enhancement, what about his high-powered contact lenses?"

"In other words, it may soon be possible for budding Bene Gesserits, with appropriate training, to receive volumes of material via the sensitive parts of the body."

"Everything I've described is possible today, and a lot of it is going on right now in the MyLifeBits project."

"research on multiple fronts in digital technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology may, over the next half century, alter the way we think about computers and information, and our relationship to them"

"Notions about marriage, family and work will change in fundamental ways, they say, as will attitudes toward the young and the old."

"aturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus."

"Do you want to be locked into tricycles because they're easy to learn?"

"My biggest worry in the Singularity is total dissolution"

What happens once you catch the leading edge of longevity advances?