Thomas Friedman talks about ten "
flatteners" of our world. If we stick to the last eight, we can relate them easily to the coming singularity at the level of a single human being. Friedman talks of:
- Work Flow Software
- Uploading
- Outsourcing
- Offshoring
- Supply-Chaining
- Insourcing
- In-forming
- Steriods
This discussion centers around the macro level, but we can easily see how it relates to the present and coming nanotechnologies. We will relinquish control to nanobots customized for optimal work flow, uploading, supply-chaining,
insourcing, in-forming, and
steriods within our own body. The
offshoring may occur as the information the nanobots transmit about our physical well-being is constantly reevaluated and optimized by people or computer programs anywhere in the world. Most nanobot scenarios include the constant transmission of information from the circulating
nanobots in our bodies to outside sources, a sort of BAN ( body area network), or PAN (personal area network).
I makes me wonder what kind of control we will have over all of this information.
I relate it to my experience on the WWW, where everyone competes for my information in hopes of getting me to read their stuff, by their product, look at their video, etc. How will companies compete to gain the information nanobots accumulate in my body?
And an even bigger question? Who will control the nanobots? Will I control them, or leave that to some more capable computer program (computer conscious)? When will I fully merge into this technology so that I have the super-computing capability to control my own functioning, without leaving too much to outside control?
When will the singularity come, and what will my living look like?
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