The Singularity Is Near

will replace the entire U.S. workforce in the form of high-intelligent machines. Futurist Ray Kurzweil through his “Singularity” concept has foretold an era around 2029, where computers will have elevated levels of consciousness, making them take over human operations. In a nutshell, his “prophecy” affirms that artificial intelligence will be heightened and developed in the near future, making machines more advanced than human intelligence. Artificial intelligence is progressively giving life…

The great Neil deGrasse Tyson once said something along the lines of humans have only discovered about 4% of the universe. Not only does my fear of what I don't know going on below my feet in the ocean scare the crap out of me, but that big star filled sky does as well. It doesn't just scare me, but it probably scares and excites scientists studying it all over the world. Since we only know a fraction of the inter-workings of the universe, there are many questions and things going on that we…

hole, it ricochets off the event horizon and is hurled outward, rather than being tugged into the maw. Bright jets of material traveling at near-relativistic speeds are created. Although the black hole itself remains unseen, these powerful jets can be viewed from great distances. Black holes have three layers the outer and inner event horizon and the singularity. Under the classical mechanics of physics, nothing can escape from a black hole. However, things shift slightly when quantum mechanics…

the Internet, biotechnology, and so on. However, the lagging edge does ultimately catch up. We have societies in Asia that jumped from agrarian economies to information economies, without going through industrialization.” (Ray Kurzweil in Singularity is Near). So I would say that the divide (at least the digital one) is rapidly diminishing, not growing. Technology is inherently neutral. It is only the society and culture in which it exists that determines whether or not it becomes a tool of…

I was pretty excited for this section, because black holes are the most destructive forces in the observable universe and can tear apart even a planet if it comes near to the event horizon. I finally asked her about how time is changed around a black hole. She explained it in detail with a great example that time never changes near or inside a black hole. Suppose, we are entering a black hole and wearing a watch, the time will pass normally on that watch as it always had. Although our watch is…

and even character of their children, and to create wonderful human’s that seem perfect. “Scientific knowledge of the human genome and our increasing ability to modify and change genes this scenario of "designing" your baby could be possible in the near future” (CNN). Designer Babies have become a popular topic today in their society to create…

Tattoos are turning out to be all the more ordinarily found in our general public today. They are seen on numerous famous people and ordinary individuals of all ages. In spite of their developing ubiquity individuals have blended sentiments about tattoos particularly with regards to a young person having them. Some individuals consider it to be a self-expressive work of art while others consider it to be a defiant juvenile act that will one day be lamented. Tattoos on young people are a…

The author of Job is unknown, but the book itself was probably written between 500 and 400 BC. Though there are some similarities to the text of Job and Egyptian and Babylonian literature of the time, the work is highly unique. The standard belief of the time was that a good person would be rewarded with good health, material wealth, and general good fortune (see, for example, Psalm 37). But human experience then, as now, was sometimes contrary to this. Bad things did happen to good people. The…

a small town at the foot of the Kaatskill Mountains “At the foot of these mountains the voyager may have described the light smoke curling off from a village”. (p.62) This states that the village is at the end of the Mountain of Kaatskill Mountain near the…

of migrating to the south for the cold weather. It is someone’s opinions, claims, or choice on one’s personality, family, and culture. The bird or other animal flying to the south for the chillier weather made the choice to decided if it would stay near the cold and risk getting injured or hurt, or if the bird would fly to the south to the warmer, safer weather. This is an example of how one’s identity is created: through your environment, background, and status. The first way one’s identity is…