The Curve Argumentative Analysis

Imagine growing up in an age that allows the seemingly impossible to come into fruition. Ideas sprouting and paradigms shifting at an ever accelerating rate. Boundaries that we confidently set in the past being knocked down. Precedents of human limits easily surpassed. Unfathomable amounts of information being sent through the air and computations happening faster than just the day before. The blind, deaf, and dumb having the opportunity to see, hear, and speak. The physically disabled being at no disadvantage to the rest because of technological fixes. It sounds utopian but this is the kind of aeon we find ourselves in. Human evolution is riding what is referred to as The Curve. Both biologically and technologically, human beings are pushing …show more content…
The speed driven world we live in has collapsed distance and time to the point where the average person a century ago wouldn’t recognize, believe, or begin to understand something simple and natural for people now, for example the world wide web. To the average person even only fifty years ago, the internet could be considered to fall under their umbrella of The Singularity because it’s an idea they couldn’t comprehend. Following the same logic, ideas that are currently unknowable have the potential to become a part of the human paradigm. Ideas in The Current Singularity can escape and become a reality. It would be foolish to assume that what we don’t know now dictates what we can never know. This line of thinking eliminates impossibilities and the idea of anything unable to be understood. Sounds like the idea of god. Who knows, maybe Ray Kurzweil is onto something and creating god or becoming gods isn’t so far fetched. “We are gods and might as well get good at it.” (p. 85). One quality of god, omnipresence, seems to be around the corner. By means of the Technological Curve, there is surveillance of nearly all first world citizens. No matter where one may go, many find themselves in a gridlock of contributing to big data. There is an ever present entity for every swipe of the plastic card and every interaction on the internet. Now extend that to every sector of life and suddenly there exists an …show more content…
Maybe the human 2.0 won’t care to notice the warmer globe or even have an economy. Maybe their ancestors struggled and sacrificed themselves to get them there. It could be argued that this human wouldn’t be at all the human we currently know. So call them something different, it won’t matter. Present day humans are drastically different to hominids tens of thousands of years ago and according to The Curve future humanoids will be unrecognizable to us in thousands and even more likely hundreds of years from now. A hundred years is but a drop in the massive bucket of time that human history spans. Surviving the 21st century should be easy yet it’s apparent that it might be one of the most difficult tasks humanity has come to face. So how do we survive? Well there is definitely no concrete answer to that. “I decline to accept the end of man...I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.” (p. 187). The best course of action is to have the will to survive and naturally as a result I’d like to think we will. Whether it be policy changes that regulate and inhibit growth or technological fixes or both, the key to surviving this century is not looking at imminent difficulties in despair. We live in a complex reality full of surprises and taking risks is an innate pleasure and right we have. As terrifying as some of the scenarios could be imagined to be, it’s quite invigorating to dance with the