Chomsky toward the end is asked 'do you think we are making progress?' (lol, all but the conservative of conservatives i think would answer that with a yes, course, the very idea would have anathema to Donald Trump's campaign) .. and he said of course, and at the same time regressing (think global warming) .. it's a good listen .. his "technological singularity" position comes in about 19:20 .. sill, i'm guessing Chomsky if asked 'could it become a reality by 2045, or at least this century?' .. Chomsky would say, "hmm, possibly".
"as for us, our evolution -- even as we are now, we're still evolving, all by ourselves, rather rapidly in fact -- and uniquely in this time, for the first time, there are the added variables/potentials/likelihoods/realities of the direct, directed genetic engineering/optimization of us as biological life, and of the incorporation into/merging with us of technology (both mechanical/robotic and computational/connected/intelligent) -- so there are now multiple paths, in addition to/along with the usual and itself continuing evolving-all-by-ourselves path, by which potentially various both entirely biological and hybrid biological/technological successors to us identifiable as new (sub)species may soon emerge"
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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