As we are in the year forecasted to be the time of the apocalypse, I thought you might like to see an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Love Byte, about how intelligence will survive. The AI computer woman, Juno, who has lived for several human generations, speaks to a human:
"The years passed, and eventually an ecological disaster reduced the human population of the world by a factor of 1,000. There remained fewer than ten million souls, surviving in pockets here and there. The Singularity was reached before you were born when explosive computer intelligence exceeded human intelligence, and the surviving humans were enhanced by technologies to increase their intelligence and survivability.
"History became irrelevant. Humans became life forms like ants or monkeys to be preserved for what they do uniquely well. For humans this still is art, creativity, and imagination, but those precious attributes don’t interest ants, monkeys or computers. Computers by themselves won’t take over the world, and humans will never flourish in the billions again. The top of the pyramid will be computers controlled by humans to manage everybody and everything else."
Have a great 2012!
