With especially the rise of brain-computer interfaces and biometric sensors and so forth,
it is very likely.
that within, say, 50 years, people will literally be part of a network.
All the bodies, all the brains would be connected together to a network,
and you won't be able to survive if you are disconnected from the net,
because your own body parts, your own immune system,
perhaps depends on being constantly connected to the colony, to the network.
The biggest question maybe in economics and politics of the coming decades will be what
to do with all these useless people.
The problem is more boredom and what to do with them and how will they find some sense of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless.
My best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games.
Today we are in favour of the liberalisation of the drug.
Solving the inner problems with drugs and computer games, both legal drugs and illegal drugs.
can create new ideas, can even write a new Bible. Humans are now hackable
animals. You know, the whole idea that humans have, you know, they have
this soul or spirit and they have free will and nobody knows what's happening
inside me, so whatever I choose, whether in the election or whether in the
supermarket, this is my free will, that's over.
I mean all this story about Jesus rising from the dead and being the son of God
This is fake news
In terms of ideas, in terms of religions, the most interesting place today in the world, in religious terms, is Silicon Valley.
It's not the Middle East. This is where the new religions are being created now by people like Ray Kurzweil.
And these are the religions that will take over the world.
and then we'll have it.