José Luis Cordeiro The "Singularity": The Future of Technology and the Technology of the Future Change is not constant, in fact, change is accelerating very fast. Some technologies are radically changing humanity, in general, and also changing human beings, in particular. Many experts now talk about the four sciences and technologies of the future: NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno). Furthermore, the NBIC fields are rapidly converging at an accelerating rate and they will help to transcend many human limitations in order to improve human lives all around the world, and beyond our tiny planet. We are truly moving rapidly towards a new world led by scientific discoveries and technological innovations. Humanity is fast approaching what some people call the "Technological Singularity": the moment when artificial intelligence will reach human intelligence levels, and then quickly overtake it. One of the major consequences of this technological singularity is that humans will become immortal, with indefinite lifespans for those wanting longevity extension. Perhaps then some humans might become transhumans and posthumans, changing forever life on Earth and the universe.
Biography Jose Cordeiro, MBA, PhD (www.cordeiro.org) studied science at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB), Venezuela , engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge , economics at Georgetown University, Washington, and management at INSEAD, France. He is chair of the Venezuela Node of The Millennium Project, founding faculty and energy advisor in Singularity University at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley, California, founder of the World Future Society’s Venezuela Chapter, cofounder of the IberoAmerican Transhumanist Association, and former director of the Club of Rome (Venezuela Chapter), World Transhumanist Association (Humanity+) and the Extropy Institute. He has lectured extensively in many business schools around the world, advised many start-ups across the Americas and Europe, and was a visiting scholar at IDE-JETRO in Tokyo, Japan. He has published a dozen books in five languages, written over four hundreds articles, and appeared in several documentaries with CNN, Discovery Channel and History Channel.