Singularity...will create singles??

Singularity can relate to the advancement of technology. These advances have come into the world at a fast rate, threatening the human lifestyle. In the article, 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal by Lev Grossman, technology is written out to be more than what it currently is. In 1965, a young man named Raymond Kurzweil presented a computer system that can compose its own music. By creating a computer to compose music, Kurzweil caused a line to “blur that cannot be unblurred, the line between organic intelligence and artificial intelligence” (Grossman). Tools have been improved to help create machinery that can think and take action on its own. This is a very risky situation that scientists have put civilization into. Technology is so advanced (and still advancing) and this causes reliance on an average human to decrease because the trust will alter and be in the higher intelligence figure.

This article relates to Brave New World through the technological advances. In Brave New World, George Orwell creates imagery of the society growing old in age, but not in appearance. The people “don’t allow them[selves] to be like that…. [They] keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium” (Orwell 111). To keep the entire society of London, England looking young is accomplished through blood transfusions. This science improves the lives of the people, but it is done synthetically. Bernard Marx is against this because he knows that there are more things out in the world than what he is presented. He wants to be used for more than for working to create newer and enhanced people. Bernard likes “to look at the sea in peace…” because it makes him feel “as though [he] were more [himself]” and “not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in a social body” (Orwell 90).

If people and technology unite together, the world would not be the same, but the people would all be very alike. Each person is taught the same things in Brave New World through hypnopædia; therefore, every person has the same amount of knowledge. Each person would have an advanced mind than before, but inventors will never be fully satisfied with what is the best at the present time. There will always be a search of improvement for a way to become even smarter. Creating technology to achieve this will need to be done and applied to everyone authentically.

(Example of intelligent robots!!)