The Singularity

"I don't believe anything's gonna happen, and I'll tell you why," he says. "It would be dangerous to create things that reproduce, okay? And if you create little life forms that reproduce, that could be pretty dangerous stuff." He writes about this a lot in the book about what these things will be like, and it's not threatening at all. But building brains has nothing to do with actually building human-like things. It's building the near cortex, not a human. We're not building things that replicate, or feel bad about being wrapped, in a little black box on a rack someplace. The internet is one of the most important technologies in 50 years