Singularity is a bad idea

.. LET IT BEGIN! First off. I will list the "good" that will come from the Singularity but then explain why I think it will not be as good as it is advertised. There are obviously A LOT more than what I have listed but for the sake of time and space, I hope my opponent can accept what I have listed and argue from there. 1. ) Immortality 2. ) Freedom 3. )Utopia 4. )Peace 5. )End of capitalism 6. )Sci-fi fantasy world 7. )Man and machine 1. ) Immortality Who wouldn't want to live forever? We have seen it in the movies and most of us envy the very idea of immortality; the ability to live forever; to live through history itself and witness change in the world forever! Sounds cool and legitimate right? But here is the other side: humans are still evolving. If you introduce immortality, our bodies will physically stay the same, but our minds will have to adapt to the world, not our bodies. Imagine not having the right tongue to speak the languages in one million AD? Imagine not having the right digestive system to eat the foods millions of years from now? Will you enjoy the same entertainment? You would go crazy! Imagine a war on eternal life? If wars were harsh with the loss of life, think how wars will be when eternal life is the means to fight. 2. )Advocates of the Singularity propose this idea of freedom, that you will be able to do whatever you want. You will live in a world where boundaries are endless and failure is a thing of the past. But with great power comes great responsibility. .. We could have the power to change our race, sex, age, color and brain to fit our needs of necessity. We could have uploaded minds where our brain is a storage device so we won't forget anything (I wouldn't mind that)! Unfortunately this sounds more like advertising rather than proclaiming real ideas for the future. If what they say is true, what can be done that would NOT be good due to the "freedom" we would hold? Once we have robots with a higher intelligence level than us, we will become enslaved by the very thing we created. 3. )Utopia is claimed to be the the perfect society, but in who's eyes,? Who will see to it? Not the average Joe. The movement towards a utopia is the first step to a totalitarian government. The focus on a paradise gives the government full reign on your rights as a citizen. Take a way a little freedom of speech, but you will have paradise. Once our government sees that a utopia is possible, what will it do to achieve it? A utopia ASSUMES that humans do not have the right traits to survive in the world. Therefore, we need a state where it removes those traits and we get a perfect world. Imagine the government taking away everything that makes you YOU just so you can conform to the confines of this new society. Would you be willing to do that for the perfect society? 4. ) Peace from singularity is about as unbelievable as a football bat. The Singularity proposes the idea that we will all be protected from any form of violence. With a perfect society, what could possibly go wrong? Something is bound to go wrong. With so much power through technology, someone WILL have the ability to hack it. We didn't think we could be attacked on 9/11 but we did. Hacking will be the new form of terrorism. It will be just as plausible as a bomb in a building. But what happens when something does go wrong? The government will try to hide it, as it has in past years, in order to maintain the image of a perfect society. 5. ) Not everybody is a fan of capitalism nowadays. But when you don't have capitalism, you have a dictatorship: AKA communism. Instead of you working to benefit you (capitalism) you will work to benefit the government (Communism). Everything you do will be monitored by the government in order to make sure it benefits the whole rather than you. Imagine a world where everything you do is not done for you? Capitalism will be gone and you will have a dictator who wars over this perfect society and oppresses anyone who thinks retracts from the idea whether they are civilians or politicians. A utopia is the perfect society for anyone power hungry enough to achieve it. 6. ) Flying cars! Robots! Floating mansions! Time Travel! Yayyy! But for what? When the Singularity strikes, we will become a society more materialistic than we are now. With so much possible and almost "no limitations", what's to prevent someone from exploiting what is given to them: freedom. When one person is brainwashed into believing he/she is free, they psychologically convince themselves that they are really free. With the ability to do almost anything, the very idea that something is NOT possible, is unimaginable. So when something is not attainable, that person will do anything to achieve it because they have the means to do it. Everybody will want to have what they WANT not what they NEED. We will become a society where enough is not enough and not enough is unacceptable. 7. ) To your point about the merging of man and machine and/or when "machine surpasses man", it isn't one or the other. The first step is when man and machine are thought to be merged together to form a single conscience. The next step is when that intelligence surpasses human intelligence. We are blinded by the idea that we can control what we create, when in fact we don't. When it comes to technology involving humans and robots alike, it is IMPOSSIBLE to know what exactly the technology we create 1000 years from now, will do. When the year comes when we can merge man and machine for the very first time, we will not know what the machinery will do because we have never given intelligence an essence. We have to be aware that whatever we create in that it can be just as easily manipulated as it was created. When you give machinery a mind of its own, IT IS NOT YOUR MIND. It is completely separate from your image of a "perfect" robot. I hope this is the start to a great debate! The floor is yours my friend. ..