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(NEWSER) - Computers could get all our transistors going in the very near future when we finally accept them as "human," predicts a well-known futurist. Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil believes that humans and technology are blurring—he points to the bionic smartphones attached to nearly every human's hand—and will eventually merge. "We are a human-machine civilization. Everybody has been enhanced with computer technology," he told an audience yesterday at the South by Southwest Interactive conference. "They're really part of who we are." Machines will also continue to evolve on their own toward a human-like status, notes CNN . "If we can convince people that computers have complexity of thought and nuance we'll come to accept them as human," says Kurzweil. More»
