But the fears and nightmares about technology and its devices have paralleled our hopes and dreams about it. That vision continues ever more strongly to guide our path through micro-electronics and computer technology. We have not, however, come to terms with our fears. They continue, as we go step by step toward human irrelevancy. Nothing special about us.
Machines are stronger than humans, think more rationally, are more efficient.
By some standards they are alive. Animal brains have been artificially sustained in the laboratory. It is only a matter of time before the brain or the 'mind' of humans is isolated and implanted in a mechanical body or drained into a computer and then discarded. Together, man and machine can achieve things that neither can alone, coexisting in an evolutionary symbiosis. It is a logically necessary consequence of eternal progress that our species become extin ct.