Brian Gupta:  

nology has just barely begun to hit an inflection point... Nothing we have seen will have prepared us rate of change during the next 10-15 years. If we take it a step further and look out to the second 35 years of our lives, I can't even begin to articulate. Hmmm, well I lied... I can begin to articulate... We will witness the "birth" of a new age of "machine intelligence". We will see both artificially crafted software constructs that are "alive", and intelligent. They will ask questions and learn... they will most likely develop emotions and feelings... (We are the generation that came of age with the microcomputer.) Around the year 2037, we will see the first digitized human being. (Well actually, digitized human brain). What will the legal status of non biological life forms be? Funny thing, kids (20 somethings) today would all be considered computer geeks in our day... They are hard core... microsecond attention spans... hardwired, computers and technology are an extension of their being. (That's what I've got to compete with in my career. It's given me more than one grey hair.. actually that's another lie.. I've had grey hair since I was 19. And I'm not really worried about the kids.. I still am one myself) It is, however getting hard to keep up with all the innovation that's happening... I used know everything that was happening in microcomputers back in high school. Now, I might at best know 1/10th of 1 percent of what's happening. Cheers, Brian P.S. - It is very difficult to write a cohesive story when all you have to work with is a 7 line editor.