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Subscribe to RSSIs Singularitism a religion, a scientific life-extension strategy, an old-boy's network or the wave of the future? Maybe all of the above, based on this feature about the Singularity University at work. It's nice to have such optimism in technology, but there's also something oddly off-putting about all this... It's the same spidey-sense tingle I get about Nietzschean supermanism and Scientology. Particularly at $15,000 for a nine-day course.
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To Alan Boyle, This article about Singularitism reminds me of an award winning Japanese television show from 1998, Cowboy BeBop: Session 23 Brain Scratch. If you can take the fifteen minutes out of your day to watch these two clips from that episode you might have a different opinion of where this type of idealism can spread. First from the beginning of the show, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG4mDtL6yLk, which should give you an idea of how quickly you can get a following with the right choice of words. And last, from the end of the episode, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acW-axefwaM, where you should pay attention to what Dr. Londes is saying before his connection gets terminated, which could shed some light on what a persons true intentions may be. "The more one promotes and talks about oneself, the easier it is to conceal one's true self."-Niettzsche
Maybe it was just a poorly interpreted version, maybe it was lack of comprehension, or maybe I'm not sure what you think Nietzsche's "Ubermensch" actually means. When you consider the regional dialect, the time period it was written, and the context of its use, one can understand it means "higher-man" or "over-man". In no way was Nietzsche referring to a comic book style superman or a cyborg like you are referring.
the way the economy is going,you might still be paying off the 15,000 in 2045,kidding aside,I doubt in 2045 people will be embracing the concept as a whole,but in the medical world I see a end to neural type diseases,spinal cord injuries and a host of other brain,nerve disorder's and that is a good thing.