Early Christmas morning, turmoil was unleashed in downtown Nashville when Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a large bomb hidden in an RV outside an AT&T building, destroying a city block in the tourist district. As soon as I heard the AT&T connection in Nashville, I immediately suspected the bombing might have something to do with the increasing opposition to 5G data infrastructure in countriesacrossthe world. 5G is the fifth generation of broadband cellular technology, which has much greater data processing speed than 4G.
[A]ttacks on 5G infrastructure are becoming more common.
Less than two days after the explosion, the media reported that the FBI was looking into 5G anxieties as a possible motive. Warner was an independent contractor in information technology. His considerable efforts to reduce casualties suggested that the bomber’s aim was to hit a hard target, not to inflict a death toll. Thus, the bomb’s location outside the AT&T facility didn’t seem to be a coincidence. I
In his 1999 Law of Accelerating Returns , inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil proposed that technology would advance exponentially over the next decades so that human civilisation could achieve in the first twenty years of the 21st century the equivalent of what had been achieved throughout the entire 20th century.
While this is now, in retrospect, questionable, actual technological advancements since the 20th century have nevertheless brought about the question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually surpass human intelligence.
Though AI is at the moment capable of sensing, recognising, and creating, it has yet to attain autonomy. The impression remains however that we are on the cusp of a technological explosion, and that what happens in the next few decades could potentially threaten the existence of humanity.
Fifteen years ago, the book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by futurist Ray Kurzweil was published. It addressed topics such as biology, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and transhumanism.
Michio Kaku, best-selling author and professor at The City College of New York, believes life after death can be achieved through digital means.
This does not mean science will one day allow us to stand before the Pearly Gates but, rather, technology will be able to immortalise our memories, personalities and quirks in a way that will be accessible for future generations.
Doing so could, Dr Kaku believes, recreate genius minds like Albert Einstein based on his life s writings, speeches and mannerisms.
Dr Kaku discussed the topic of life after death in a Big Think video alongside former pastor and author Rob Bell, science writer Michael Shermer and science communicator Bill Nye.