The World in 2030

318 The World in 2030
other machines – of the United States in a week. And
that’s just using currently understood science, with a
dollop of engineering development thrown in. 549
How might humans react to the arrival of such intelligence,
such super-capability on Earth? Quite simply, we don’t and
can’t know.
In the longer term I suspect, as I have for over forty
years, that enhanced human beings and super-computer
intelligence will merge to become a new species that will
become our successors, a new non-biological species which
will finally be able to spread out and colonise the solar
system and, eventually, the universe.
I don’t see the super-intelligent computer personalities of
the future as being terrifyingly alien beings, but as a natural
product and extension of ourselves. They will indeed be our
children.