By 2100 we will see cities with 140 million people. Robots will wage war. Humans, whose bodies have changed more in the last 100 years than in the previous 100,000, will “transcend biology.”
The futurist Ray Kurzweil calls this merger of human and machine intelligence “the Singularity.” Morris suggests that something like that may create new ways of capturing energy, communicating, thinking, fighting, working, loving, aging, and reproducing.
—an excerpt from Marc Parry’s great article on Ian Morris at The Chronicle
Read the first 2paragraphs of Ian Morris’s Why the West Rules–for Now