Three Tech Revolutions

In the book The Singularity Is Near, Ray Kurzweil highlighted that technological advancements are moving ahead at an exponential rate. Today's technologies are helping us to build better technologies for tomorrow which fuels the acceleration. Kurzweil identifies genetics, nanotechnology and robotics as the three overlapping revolutions. These revolutionary technologies will redefine our lives in the future. The genetics revolution will allow us to reprogram our own biology. The nanotechnology revolution will allow us to manipulate matter at the molecular and atomic scale. The robotics revolution will allow us to create a greater than human non-biological intelligence. 

The medical laboratory has been anticipating the power of genetic engineering for a long time. GMO crops are already produced by a lot of farmers on a wide scale. Since the human genome project was completed in 2003, there has been huge advancements in reading, writing and programming DNA. With biotechnology, the medical laboratory can now reprogram the code of life.

DNA: Life's Software

Software programming and engineering is a major contributor to the birth of the information age. DNA is the ultimate software which programs life, but the human race is still incapable of engineering this software. The double helix of the DNA structure can archive large amounts of data in minute volumes. This is fascinating! Since farmers started to experiment with crossbreeding and selective breeding of plants and animals, Genetics has fascinated many futurists. The ability to create a form of life which doesn't exist currently in nature is the ultimate form of technology. Selective breeding of crops allowed farmers to create a plant which produces the highest yield of fruits and resist diseases which affect other plants. That was where genetic engineering began. Hence, selecting parents (male and female), for any form of life, to breed can engineer a living system (offspring) with a gene pool that does not exist in nature. 

Genetic engineering is programming the DNA code to create cells with a desired function. This can enhance the traits of any living organism and create life with specific characteristics. As we swim in an ocean of data on a daily basis, we continue to search for ways to store this data efficiently. Archiving data in DNA molecules might be the solution and could be the final invention for combining digital intelligence and biological intelligence. Medical Laboratories working with DNA are at the forefront of this new genetic technology.

Engineering humans

The final invention of the human race is the engineering of a synthetic human built as a cyborg with superhuman powers. Engineering human beings will include creating mechanical and electrical devices that will become human body parts. This will incorporate the use of tissue engineering and editing of human genetics. This will be achieved by future biomedical engineers transforming medical laboratories into cyborg factories.

Our final invention will be a synthetic human in the form of a cyborg which has a combination of biological and artificial intelligence. The supposed risks associated with this final invention could probably lead to the extermination of the human race. It will be difficult to control a cyborg that may become orders of magnitude more intelligent that the most intelligent human being. Biomedical engineers will be the single most important profession in shaping the future of humanity. They will shape the future using technologies in the areas of genetics, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology. The singularity is near!

 

Nanodiagnostics and Genetics

Advancements in genetic modification via nanodiagnostics can be used to create superhumans. Nanotechnology is a field of research and innovation concerned with building things on the scale of atoms and molecules. Hence nanodiagnostics can build synthetic DNA that can change the molecular biology of humans. Editing of genes using nanotech can lead to the creation of superintelligent humans through combining biological intelligence with artificial intelligence using brain-computer interfaces. 

Medical Laboratories are using nanodiagnostic techniques to change and rewrite human genetics. Although it is now a reality, the editing of human genetics is still seemingly associated with science fiction. Mutants such as Professor X are popularised as superheroes from science fiction and other comic books and movies. Using CRISPR to edit one's genome is giving humans superpowers as they do to the superheroes in science fiction movies.

 

Three Paths to Superintelligence

The existential risk of humanity is a growing concern for many futurists who study singularity. Predictions are being made in Nick Bostrom's book called Superintelligence, that are potentially dangerous for mankind. Three paths to superintelligence that are highlighted in the book include: artificial intelligence, genetics and brain-computer interfaces. These three paths are purported to have the potential of creating cyborgs with superhuman powers. 

Medical Laboratories are playing a crucial role in the advancement of genetics as a path towards superintelligence. Predicting diseases such as Cancer will be the goal of Medical Laboratories that use genetics, cyborgization and artificial intelligence.

The Genetics of Telekinesis, Telepathy and Teleportation

A mutation in the DNA of humans can cause the manifestation of superpowers like telekinesis, telepathy and teleportation. Genetic engineering can bring superintelligence to reality as well as other ideas that have been highlighted in science fiction for ages. Telepathy which is communicating information vicariously without human sensory channels or physical interaction is a cyborgized activity. Telekinesis which is the ability to move objects at a distance by mental power is a cyborgized activity. Teleportation which is the transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them is a cyborgized activity. All these activities are superpowers which might seem like magic but are possible based on the laws of science. Brain-Machine interfaces can make these all possible in augmented realities of the computerized versions of ourselves. We all have magical superpowers in augmented realities. 

Medical Laboratories contribute to these superpowers through the area of genetics. Genetic engineering enhances the biological cognition of human brains by rewriting genetics of neurons and combining biological intelligence with artificial intelligence to create cyborgs. Once we mix our real physical world with our virtual reality then we can see and manifest all our superpowers in cyberspace. We use our genetically enhanced brains combined with AI to manifest telepathy, telekinesis and teleportation in augmented realities.

Medical Labs creating Cyborgs

A person whose body contains mechanical and/or electrical devices and whose abilities are greater than the abilities of normal humans is called a Cyborg. Connecting a human to a computer seems almost impossible to fathom. However, creating cyborgs through a brain-computer interface is possible. For example, analyze the similarities between a biological neural network in the human brain and a artificial neural network used in a computer. Both are similar and operate on principles that are the same. Hence biological intelligence (humans) and artificial intelligence (machines) can be combined to create cyborgs. Other areas such as genetic engineering, tissue engineering, augmented reality, quantum mechanics and living on other planets in space could make life as a cyborg more fascinating. Cyborg is the combination of two words (cybernetic and organism). Hence brain-machine interfaces can create cybernetic organisms.

Becoming cyborgs could be the solution for humans to become a mutiplanetary species. Cyborgs would have to be genetically and tissue engineered to resist the heat on Venus and the radiation on Mars. Medical Laboratories could be the factory floor for biomedical engineers to create cyborgs. Would you want to be a cyborg?