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Name: gomper
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Subject: World population to hit 11 billion by 2100
Date: Thursday, June 22, 2017
Time: 8:13:30 PM
Remote Address: 70.50.53.21
Message ID: 309313
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Thread ID: 309309

World population to hit 11 billion by 2100

The future will look nothing like the past. Just google "Technological Singularity" and you will see a vision of the future that is held by many experts these days. We'll become post-humans. We won't consume food as we know it now. And every computer in the world will interface fully with every other computer. We'll have Virtual Reality that is indistinguishable from reality by 2035, and we are predicted to have true Artificial Intelligence by the the 2040s.

These sound like developments that you would think would be centuries away but the fact is that technology advances exponentially, not linearly. We don't see it clearly simply because we are at the "knee of the curve". We'll reach a point where everything goes straight up non-stop.

I first came upon this theory in Ray Kurzveil's book The Singularity Is Near. Its just awesome! Perhaps one of the more mind blowing ideas is that we will get to a point where there is no distinguishing between biology and mechanization. This is the moment where we are truly "post-human".

So will there be 11 Billion or tens of Billions of people on the planet one day. Sure. But they won't be humans in the way we understand our race right now.

Imagine the creative potential of tens of billions of minds? And now link them all up (because the computers will be inside us) and have the sum total of all human knowledge instantly accessible to all (or more accurately, to the one collective entity that we will be)

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