Figuring out the future: Will we be ready to live in a world where machines are smarter than people?

Figuring out the future: Will we be ready to live in a world where machines are smarter than people?: "“I think we’re going to soon reach a point of getting rid of all diseases that we know of now. Either they won’t exist, or they’ll be easily treatable,” said Solez, 67, leaning back in a battered old chair in his office in the University Hospital building.



Predictions like this are made with a straight face when you’re talking about the singularity."