Homo-Cyborg: Our Next Evolution

Imagine if you can a human with mental processing speed equal to that of ten super computers. Or with eyesight enhanced a hundred fold. Perhaps legs augmentations that increase the persons speed and agility. It sounds like pure science fiction but it has already begun. The next step in human evolution will not be in the realm of genetics but instead cybernetics, and it may even be an inevitable and necessary one.

About one week ago I was fortunate enough to view a television program depicting various possible and probable apocalyptic scenarios on the Sci-Fi channel. In the program it was explained that eventually the machines that we build to serve us will become smarter then we are. When this happens it has be theorized that they may become self aware and in doing so seek to pro-long their own existence. In which case they will seek to ensure that they cannot be turned off and could end up fighting us should we decide to do so. Which we would most certainly do when the now self aware machines decide to stop doing what we tell them to. It all sounds like a plot for a Hollywood Sci-Fi blockbuster but it is a very real threat.