Reinvent Yourself: The Playboy Interview with

When we’re told what the future will look like, we always see the version where everyone lives like Minority Report’s John Anderton. Played by Tom Cruise, Anderton is a wealthy police chief, the kind of person who can afford a summer house on the lake or the newest Lexus model. But unfortunately, if the future is anything like the present, his will only be one side of the story.

Cette surmédiatisation du concept de cyborg va jusqu’à engendrer une mise en question passionnée de l’appareillage, domaine où la raison devrait nous guider : qui oserait lancer un débat «pour ou contre» la chaise roulante ou la canne anglaise ? Le sujet amputé, plus ou moins «réparé», se retrouve involontairement enjeu de discussions sur l’«augmentation» du corps dont il connaît, lui, les limites, au risque de rendre encore plus compliquée l’image qu’il a de lui-même et que la société se fait de lui.

"In the 21st century medicine is moving onwards and trying to surpass the norm, to help people live longer, to have stronger memories, to have better control of their emotions. But upgrading like that is not an egalitarian project, it's an elitist project. No matter what norm you reach, there is always another upgrade which is possible."

the project will collect anonymous genetic and molecular information from 175 people—and later thousands more—to create what the company hopes will be the fullest picture of what a healthy human being should be.

If all a futurist has to do is wave his hands and say things will change more rapidly than we expect, then futurists like Kurzweil are nothing but techno-gimmicky Criswells. Utterly useless.

«Google est une société magnifique. Pourtant, si elle devient leader en matière de lutte contre la mort, d'intelligence artificielle, de robotique, de domotique, de voitures intelligentes, il faudra vraiment réfléchir à la démanteler! Elle pourrait devenir plus puissante que les États.»

“Imagine your brain being augmented by Google,” the search engine’s co-founder and chief executive officer, Larry Page, said in a 2004 interview. “For example, you think about something and your cell phone could whisper the answer into your ear.”

The Ray Kurzweil Show, Now at the Googleplex

« Our technological progress has by and large replaced evolution as the dominant, future-shaping