The paradigm shift rate is now doubling every decade, so the twenty-first century will see 20,000 years of progress at today's rate. ...
We are rapidly learning the software programs called genes that underlie biology. We are understanding disease and aging processes as information processes, and are gaining the tools to reprogram them. ...
... The portion of the economy comprised of information technology is itself growing exponentially ...
Once nonbiological intelligence matches the range and subtlety of human intelligence, it will necessarily soar past it ... Intelligent nanorobots will be deeply integrated in the environment, our bodies and our brains, providing vastly extended longevity, full-immersion virtual reality incorporating all of the senses, experience "beaming," and enhanced human intelligence. The implication will be an intimate merger between the technology-creating species and the evolutionary process it spawned.
