505 - 2 - Humans becoming robots

Yuval Noah Harari, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said machines will transform future humans so much that they will be as different from us as we are from chimpanzees.
He added that it would be the "biggest evolution in biology" since life first emerged four billion years ago. And the terrifying transformation could happen within just 200 years.

Prof Harari, who has written a major book on the history of humanity, said people will not be able to resist upgrading themselves using genetic engineering and technology.

He said: "We are programmed to be dissatisfied. Even when humans gain pleasure and achievements it is not enough. They want more and more.

"I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so [humans] will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological manipulation or genetic engineering – or by the creation of cyborgs, part organic and part non-organic."

The hit Terminator film franchise, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, shows a battle for survival between a nearly-extinct human race and a international race of cyborgs.

These ideas also lie true (as hints for society perhaps?) in the new blockbuster film - Ghost in a Shell. 

In the near future, Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible terrorist attack, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major Kusanagi is uniquely qualified to stop it.

Prof Harari added how we've already begun to fuse with computers, as humans are now abandoning traditional religions and are worshipping technology instead - http://www.andygranowitz.com/2015/02/24/yuval-harari-techno-religions-silicon-prophets.html

"The most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is not the Middle East," he said, "it's Silicon Valley where they are developing a techno-religion."
"They believe even death is just a technological problem to be solved."

This came as a top Cambridge scientist warned that we could start downloading our brains onto computers to live forever as machines.

Dr Hannah Critchlow said a computer could be built that would recreate the 100 trillion connections in the human brain. If so, it would be possible for people to live on inside a programme.

This is all research showing how technology is sure to bring us even more unbelievable products/abilities, but also how if not tamed a step at a time, it could become the beginning of the end of the human race too.