Ray Kurzweil is a genius and psychic. Although he will disagree with that title, he has rightfully predicted the coming era of the Internet, the human genome, and the demise of the USSR. Ray is also responsible for first flatbed scanner, text-to-speech synthesizer, and music synthesizer. Widely considered a revolutionary and a superb futurist, Ray now works for Google and writes his owns books. Ray is now predicting that the world of technology is going to progress so quickly that humans will need to embed technology within themselves just to keep up.
The coming horror movie that is technology/ human integration will be the next era of the human race. Ray believes that future humans will back up their "mind files" just as we backup our hard drives. I support change in technology, and would like to formally retract my statement from before about my fear of future technology. I am nostalgic, and I would like things to stay the way they are, however, I must be aware of the changing pace of today's world. I intend to keep up with technology just as much as everyone else, if not more so because of my future career in new media. I have watched too many sci-fi flicks to not worry about Skynet's takeover or the robot apocalypse. With all that in mind, I am not very conservative when it comes to keeping up with technology. I want people to be aware of who and where they are; I have a very Zen approach to life, maybe because of my upbringing, but I do wish people were more awake to what is happening around them. People are too easily distracted, walking around with their phones, almost getting hit by cars, or scrolling Facebook during lectures, defeating the purpose of their parents' dollars at work.
My only concern is the loss of awareness. I want people to socialize face-to-face. If my concern is misconceived, then my fears are confirmed. Take off those Google glasses and look with your eyes, you have special eyes.
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