There Are Downsides To Every Technology. Fire

To Transcend Means To "go Beyond," But This Need Not Compel Us To An Ornate Dualist View That Regards Transcendent Levels Of Reality (e.g., The Spiritual Level) To Be Not Of This World. We Can "go Beyond" The "ordinary" Powers Of The Material World Through The Power Of Patterns. Rather Than A Materialist, I Would Prefer To Consider Myself A "patternist." It's Through The Emergent Powers Of The Pattern That We Transcend.

By 2010 Computers Will Disappear. They'll Be So Small, They'll Be Embedded In Our Clothing, In Our Environment. Images Will Be Written Directly To Our Retina, Providing Full-immersion Virtual Reality, Augmented Real Reality. We'll Be Interacting With Virtual Personalities.

By 2009, Computers Will Disappear. Displays Will Be Written Directly Onto Our Retinas By Devices In Our Eyeglasses And Contact Lenses.

I'm An Inventor. I Became Interested In Long-term Trends Because An Invention Has To Make Sense In The World In Which It Is Finished, Not The World In Which It Is Started.

In 1999, I Said That In About A Decade We Would See Technologies Such As Self-driving Cars And Mobile Phones That Could Answer Your Questions, And People Criticized These Predictions As Unrealistic.