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Virtual Predictions

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Love. What people will do to prove their love to others. We give jewelry, we travel to exotic places, we built monuments. All this to prove that our love is real, to give it a tangible presentation, in order to leave no doubt. These acts of love, often has a large cost. Weddings may be the best known, as they often set people back financially for decades, aquiring large sums in debt. But we still do it. When we transfer most of our communication to the virtual three-dimensional world, what happens to love? In the virtual world we are only limited by memory, which is already close to unlimited. When we're all rich enough and capable to create the most incredible of dreams for our significant others, will our definition of love change again? Will the currency (LOVE) lose value or become even stronger? Already we have seen this. Proposals built into video games, love declarations on websites, videos and images. What will be the virtual version of Taj Mahal and who will build it?

The Singularity Relegation

The Singularity is explained often by Ray Kurzweil, inventor, writer, futurist(and more), as a prediction of what outcome our exponentially growing advancement in technologies like computers, genetics, nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence will bring. He explains that within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to the Singularity- a technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. If somewhere in all this, a self-aware, conscious, living entity would emerge inside a super intelligent machine, there are already some examples in science fiction, that predicts this would eventually result in war between the human race and a machine intelligence... Or the merging of our two races as we would have spent a lot of time towards the Singularity to make ourselves more and more compatible with them, even down to the biological level. Where our nerves now are capable to directly communica