The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

by Kevin Kelly

Some possible new minds: A mind like a human mind, just faster in answering (the easiest AI mind to imagine). A very slow mind, composed primarily of vast storage and memory. A global supermind composed of millions of individual dumb minds in concert. A hive mind made of many very smart minds, but unaware it/they are a hive. A borg supermind composed of many smart minds that are very aware they form a unity. A mind trained and dedicated to enhancing your personal mind, but useless to anyone else. A mind capable of imagining a greater mind, but incapable of making it. A mind capable of creating a greater mind, but not self-aware enough to imagine it. A mind capable of successfully making a greater mind, once. A mind capable of creating a greater mind that can create a yet greater mind, etc. A mind with operational access to its source code, so it can routinely mess with its own processes. A superlogic mind without emotion. A general problem-solving mind, but without any self-awareness. A self-aware mind, but without general problem solving. A mind that takes a long time to develop and requires a protector mind until it matures. An ultraslow mind spread over large physical distance that appears “invisible” to fast minds. A mind capable of cloning itself exactly many times quickly. A mind capable of cloning itself and remaining in unity with its clones. A mind capable of immortality by migrating from platform to platform. A rapid, dynamic mind capable of changing the process ...