The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.