One of the interesting things about us humans is our great capacity of accumulating knowledge over generations. Our complex communication skills and our ability of thinking abstractly allow us to build knowledge on top of knowledge. As in the expression made famous by Isaac Newton, " If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"*. I have always been fascinated about this aspect of the human intelligence, and specially the things that came up from this process and even more about the things that are about to come.

I have been reading Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence, Paths, Dangers, Strategies lately, which is a fantastic book (so far). In fact, it talks about all the things that excites me such as singularity, artificial intelligence, and brain emulation, which compelled me to write this blog. I am still in the middle of the book, but I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys contemplating the future possibilities of the human race. I am not doing a review of the book, instead I just want to be inspired by Nick Bostrom's book and talk about different aspects of the paths to supper intelligence or really anything that I find fascinated, and that I believe will change our future. There are so many things going on today like the advancements in AI, robotics, biotech, and genetic engineering. I read about all these things, but I lose track of them, so I can't wait to put them all on "paper". That's it for my first post.

* modernized variant of the original text. The term standing on the shoulders of giants was attributed originally to Bernard of Chartres by John of Salisbury.