{"id":88456,"date":"2019-03-06T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/san-francisco-2036-the-story-of-the-first-cyberian-trillionaire-and-countdown-to-the-singularity"},"modified":"2019-03-06T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:02:23","slug":"san-francisco-2036-the-story-of-the-first-cyberian-trillionaire-and-countdown-to-the-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/san-francisco-2036-the-story-of-the-first-cyberian-trillionaire-and-countdown-to-the-singularity","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 2036: The Story of the First \u201cCyberian\u201d Trillionaire and Countdown to the Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/san-francisco-2036-the-story-of-the-first-cyberian-trillionaire-and-countdown-to-the-singularity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Going forward into our exponential future\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cBy our very nature, we humans are linear thinkers. We evolved to estimate a distance from the predator or to the prey, and advanced mathematics is only a recent evolutionary addition. This is why it\u2019s so difficult even for a modern man to grasp the power of exponentials. 40 steps in linear progression is just 40 steps away; 40 steps in exponential progression is a cool trillion (with a T) \u2013 it will take you 3 times from Earth to the Sun and back to Earth.\u201d \u2013Alex M. Vikoulov, The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind\u2019s Evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a special day for me. My AI assistant Ava scheduled few hours aside from my otherwise busy daily lineup to relive select childhood and adolescence memories recreated in virtual reality with a help of a newly developed AI technique \u2018Re: Live\u2019. Ava is my smart home assistant, too. I can rearrange furniture in any room, for example, just by thinking. Digital landscape wallpaper is changed by Ava by knowing my preferences and sensing my moods.<\/p>\n<p>I still like to sleep in an old-fashioned natural way from time to time, even though it\u2019s now optional with accelerated sleep simulation and other sleep bypassing technologies. So, when I opt to sleep, I like falling asleep and waking up on a virtual cloud projected directly to my consciousness, as most VR experiences are streamed via optogenetics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecstadelic.net\/top-stories\/san-francisco-2036-the-story-of-the-first-cyberian-trillionaire-and-countdown-to-the-singularity\">https:\/\/www.ecstadelic.net\/top-stories\/san-francisco-2036-th...ingularity<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going forward into our exponential future\u2026 \u201cBy our very nature, we humans are linear thinkers. We evolved to estimate a distance from the predator or to the prey, and advanced mathematics is only a recent evolutionary addition. This is why it\u2019s so difficult even for a modern man to grasp the power of exponentials. 40 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,6,64,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}