Chapt 16

Sumner cites an interesting theory from scientist/futurist Ray Kurzweil. After seeing '2001: A Space Odyessy' and its implication that humans are like everything else, imperminant, and another more advance race will come after us seems entirely realistic. Fortunately for Kurzweil, his thesis cannot be proven or disproven - whose to know what will become of humans in the next 10,000 years. With the rate of our technology becoming faster and faster, it seems reasonable that something will come as a result - whether it's computors who think for themselves or people inserting processing chips into their brains - there's at this point only educated speculation. If history is any indicator of what the future will hold, humans will be surpassed at some point by some other creature or entity. I agree to some extent with what he says, but it may take much much longer for any of his predictions to come to fruitition, if ever at all.