AI — Building A Technological God

Is this what humanity is working towards?

Are we creating a God?

What would those of the past think of the technology we have today? To those of the past, contacting someone that wasn’t in your immediate physical space via a phone call, let alone a video call, was in the realm of fantasy.

If you took someone from the 1800’s, handed them a smartphone and told them they could use it to find any information they wanted, they would think they were dreaming.

Things that were unimaginable and impossible in the past, are now daily realities for us. We can freeze time with photographs, capture reality and watch it back later with video cameras and we can travel across the entire planet in less than a single day.

Technology is magic, and more and more, it seems though there aren’t actually any limits to what technology can accomplish.

Assuming there are no major catastrophes to prevent the onward march of technology, what will be possible in 100 years time?

Could it be that we will one day create a god?

All technology is an extension of the human body. Wheels are an extension of the legs. Clothes an extension of the skin. Shoes are an extension of the feet. Binoculars are an extension of the…