1. Big tech prefers monopolies.
2. There will only be one main technology provider in the future.
3. This tech provider will exert immense influence.
4. It may not necessarily exert its influence in a bad way.
1. Within an appreciable space of time there will be robots which can do nearly everything a human can do.
2. This will create a workplace singularity: a taking over of most tasks by robots.
3. This may not necessarily be a bad thing.
4. Humans may form intimate relationships with robots.
1. In the future it is possible that people will treat their smartphone as a friend, because that smartphone will be able to have a conversation with you, in a tone and style similar to any of your human friends.
2. This will mean you will always have 'someone' to talk to.
3. This will have profound effects on our relationship with technology, blurring the human-hardware gap even more.
4. This conversational software may also be fitted to humanoid robots, allowing your 'best friend' to have a physical as well as conversational form.
1. In the future large numbers of people might spend long periods in virtual realities.
2. They may prefer to have their main existence in the virtual world, taking only food and rest breaks in the real world.
3. In the future it might be possible to interact more directly with virtual reality, through augmentation of the brain-hardware interface.
1. Given the presence of warmth, light and water on Earth it was inevitable that life would emerge.
2. Once life did emerge, it was inevitable an optimal species (called homo sapiens) would appear.
3. Once this optimal species had appeared, it was inevtiable he would give up hunting and take up farming, and eventually build the complex technological society we have today.
4. Evolution can be thought of not just in terms of organic beings, but also in terms of the evolution of things.
5. The evolution of things is much more rapid than the evolution of organic entities.
6. The evolution of things is more important than the evolution of organic entities.
7. The evidence of the evolution of things is all about us: things which hardly existed or seemed like science fiction a few years ago are now commonplace realities.
8. Although man creates all these things, he does not control the overall process of the evolution of things. It has an inner momentum of its own.
9. It can be said in this sense that man is not the end-point of evolution. He is more like a tool of evolution, continually creating new products, and facilitating the evolution of things.
10. The evolution of things will inevitability lead to a technology which is superior to man, but which could not have come into being without the creative power of man.
11. This is the ultimate singularity: when a technology has been created which can exist independently of man; and upgrade itself in an infinite series of iterations without any further help from man.
12. The evolutionary purpose of man is to create the ultimate singularity, after which he will be redundant.
13. It is in this sense that man is not the end-point of evolution. He is a tool of evolution.
14. What happens to man after the ultimate singularity is impossible to say.
15. All higher intelligences in the universe much be inorganic, although they will have had organic forebears, which created them in the first instance, before being made redundant by their own technologies.