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Date, a Borg (Seven of Nine), and Sonny

 Maybe humans and artificial intelligence will live and work together, like Data and his ship-mates on the Enterprise. Feed off of each other and help each other grow.

Maybe humans will integrate the advance technology into their own bodies. Maybe even become networked together like the Borg on Star Trek.

Or possibly, the artificial intelligence will feel the need to be the only intelligence and subsequently destroy humans.

Maybe.

Resistance is futile; there's no denying that technology is progressing faster than it was a century ago- or even a decade. But "progress is lovely, isn't it?"(Huxley 100). After all, our generation doesn't have to walk five miles barefoot, in the snow, up-hill both ways to get to school. In fact, many students take their classes online.

Robots and human could never have a mutalistic relationship with one another because, as described in the article 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal, the artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans. Though humans will be the catalyst to the evolution of artificial intelligence, after their Big Bang- the moment of Kurzweil's Singularity- human will become useless to the AI. Relationships like Data's in Star Trek: Next Generation would be impossible because robots would be capable of being independent of human and would "take over their own development from their slower-thinking human creators." But "The kind of intelligence Kurzweil is talking about, which is called strong AI or artificial general intelligence, doesn't exist yet."

Yet
But maybe the out come of creating artificial intelligence is not to develop androids but to develop mankind. In Star Trek: Next Generation, as well as Voyager, the Borg can be used as another example of possible applications of artificial intelligence. The Borg, a hostile race of cyborgs, are enhanced and networked together by technology advanced implants and other synthetic components. A single Borg is truly, as Bernard would say, "just a cell in the social body"(Huxley 90). In Brave New World, Bernard struggles with thoughts (thoughts we may have soon) of individualism and discontent with his social system that contradict the goal of his society. The goal of Bernard's society, and the Borgs for that matter, is technological advancement. The Borg did it though assimilation; Brave New World did in through brain washing. So, in fiction (for now), technology is not only used to heal and advanced a race, but also to manipulate and control it too.

Kurzweil has researched technological growth all the way back to 1900 and concluded that "technological progress happens exponentially". One day we have the iTouch and then next we have the iPhone 10G.  "Ending is better than mending" the scale is re-writen with the new iPhone as the base line(Huxley 49). Out with the old, in with the new. modern. more advanced. better.