A brief history of the future

After entering the 21st century, the plagues, famines and wars that once threatened human survival and development for a long time have been overcome, and Homo sapiens is facing new issues to be done: immortality, happiness and becoming a "divine" human being. In the process of solving these new problems, the development of science and technology will subvert many of our current "common senses" that do not need to be proved. For example, the free will advocated by humanism will face severe challenges, and machines will replace humans to make more sensible choices. .

More importantly, when the development of science and technology represented by big data and artificial intelligence becomes more and more mature, human beings will face the biggest change since evolution to Homo sapiens, and most people will become "worthless groups" , only a small number of people can evolve into "gods" whose traits have changed.

In the future, human beings will face three major problems: biology itself is an algorithm, and life is a process of continuously processing data; the separation of consciousness and intelligence; the external environment with the accumulation of big data will know ourselves better than ourselves. How to view these three major issues and how to take countermeasures will directly affect the future development of mankind.