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EPILOGUE

The first sentence page of this book stated that the world is changing. Now everything comes to a end with the realisation that you will change with it as well.

Political, social, and economic technical advancements can quickly reshape the globe if the conditions are perfect. The next technology revolution, on the other hand, may force us to anticipate change not just in the world around us, but in our entire idea of existence.

As we want to overcome what we perceive to be constraints, the future of technology appears to be focused on amplifying and enhancing our bodies and thoughts. Autonomous transportation and AI-controlled houses and workforces may make us more productive than ever, but they leave our physical bodies behind in this new world we’ve built.

Today, we choose the model of our cellphones; may we choose a model for ourselves in the not-too-distant future? Will our flesh and bones go the way of the floppy disc and VHS if the act of detaching our brains from our physical bodies is ever realised? Would the traces of iron, copper, and silicon already found in our bodies be magnified, making our existing physical forms obsolete (but biological) hardware, to be superseded by something not yet realised?

There is no limit where the nanotechnologe in construction and architecture would take us. This is only the beginning and much much more has to come ahead in the future.

Imagine being able to live everywhere you wanted, or in numerous places at once, time unimportant and malleable, as long as you had an appropriate data encoded in the cloud or your capsules. You could communicate your thoughts in the same manner that we share data now, and they would be instantly conveyed to the entire posthuman race. It’s difficult to comprehend, but separating our inner identities from our physical forms has the potential to actually connect humanity in ways that are currently unfathomable. It would be unlike anything anyone has ever experienced in their life.

It may sound far-fetched today, but as with all technological improvements, it is impossible dreams that make modest steps feasible. We may see the blockchain transform security systems, nuclear fusion lead to a clean energy breakthrough, and nanotechnology and biological augmentations allow for ever-more ambitious expeditions among the stars, just as the smartphone has put the world in our hands. Future advancements will continue to surprise and exceed our expectations.

There is no fate other than the one we choose for ourselves. We live in a time of extraordinary technological development and turmoil. But that technology also puts all of civilization’s accumulated knowledge at our fingertips, connecting us with the world’s best brains and enabling us to dream bigger, braver, and brighter than ever before.

Your world is changing, and you have the power to influence it.

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