For a while I've wanted to write an in depth post regarding my thoughts about the future. In lieu of that, I'll provide you with my thesis and an article that supports its underlying premise.
We are, as a world, transitioning to a society marked by rapid technological development. This technological development will be disruptive. Disruptive of current structures of wealth, disruptive of established governments, and disruptive of current definitions of what it means to be human. These thoughts have largely been inspired by Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. Anyway, I present the following evidence:
Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.
Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."
"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."
debunked
Kurzweil is debunked