Singularity

In Lev Grossman's article "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal", I feel like the point is partially true but it is way more dramatic or exaggerated. I mean, in today's times, man is already merging with technology in a sense to become better or to improve on certain aspects. In my opinion, this isn't a bad thing at all but instead it is beneficial to our society. To me, authentic means that it is original and I don't think that merging with technology makes us any less authentically human whatsoever. When I started to read this article I immediately thought of the movie IROBOT and that is what Grossman is saying our world will come to. He claims, "All that horsepower could be put in the service of emulating whatever it is our brains are doing when they create consciousness — not just doing arithmetic very quickly or composing piano music but also driving cars, writing books, making ethical decisions, appreciating fancy paintings, making witty observations at cocktail parties." In our reality, this is just a fictional theory but it lead me to something else that I believe is a form of singularity. Prosthesis. Prosthesis is used to help people who have gone through certain tragedies that resulted in the loss of limbs and maybe even parts of their face. Having a prosthetic allows people to be more capable of doing certain physical things. For example, the video above proves that the merging of man and technology is beneficial. Now, in our world this is a good thing but in the book, it is not. It is obvious in the novel that singularity has already began to occur right from the beginning when the reader finds out that people are created through the use of test tubes. They are born with their whole life planned out such as their job. It is not to the point where the people are literally robots but what they do and how they act are pretty much robotic. Bernard on the other hand, is different. In the book, Bernard said that he was "not just a cell in a social body" (Huxley 90). He thinks for himself and he has his own opinion and take on certain situations, unlike everyone else who just follows the crowd. Bernard is right about the people losing their essential humanity as technology progresses because in the novel, singularity has already existed in a way and it is continuing to evolve. However, in real life, the concept of singularity can only go so far.