Computers are improving faster than any technology people have experienced before, so the obvious question is: Where is all this leading? It is not enough for us, as some thinkers are doing, to throw up our hands and announce that computers are already out of control. That's just a way of avoiding responsibility. Lately, we've been asking some momentous questions about computers. Are they on the way to becoming a new life-form? Are they a successor species to people? Will people merge with them into something entirely new?
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