Joël Garreau believes that we are heading towards a post-human future where humanity will no longer exist as we know it. Just like Paul Virilio says we become technology. The merging of people and technology will make the way we understand what it means to be human no longer apply. There might still be "natural" people, but there will also be "enhanced" people who rely on the latest GRIN technology to augment their abilities. GRIN technology refers to genetic, robotic, informational and nano processes. The genetic component according to inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil will make it possible to reprogram biology away from diseases and aging. Genes exist as information, genes are software; we learn to change them. Our body is not built for our current society (obesity), our body tries to conserve every calorie (Ptolemy, 2009). There could be tragedy if we changed our genes that we don't fully understand. Millions of years of field trials have shaped who we are. There are two types of genetic technology. Somatic gene therapy is used to repair genes that are not working properly in a person. This is not so controversial because it only changes the genes of the organs and is not passed on to the next generation (p. 116, Garreau, 2005). The other concerns germline interventions that modify the genetic makeup of the embryo in its early stages. These changes will be reproduced in each subsequent generation. It should be noted that these changes are not always fully understood or possible to see their unintended consequences. The cornerstone of life is information, DNA, the genetic code. Information also increases exponentially with other technologies. The data collected and used is taken from ex...... middle of paper......better than annihilation. So for me, prevailing is the only logical choice. Kurzweil's credit in Transcendent Man highlights that Kurzweil believes the singularity will conveniently occur just before his death and that much of his wish for the singularity comes from the loss of his father. The worry is knowing what an AI's motivations are, it's hard to know what something smarter than a human would do and, more importantly, want to do. According to the film Transcendent Man, Hugo de Grais believes that artificial intelligence would wipe out humanity. Any intelligence much more advanced than ours would consider us pests in the same way we consider ants. He believes there is a coming "Artilect War" between those who favor advances in AI and those who see the advent of superintelligence as a means to our own destruction (Ptolemy, 2009) .