June 17, 2015
Today's 'Galaxy' Insight --"The Dominant Intelligence in the Universe May Be Non-Biological"
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/06/-todays-galaxy-insight-the-dominant-intelligence-in-the-universe-may-be-non-biological.html
Once a society creates the technology that could put them in touch with the cosmos, they are only a few hundred years away from changing their paradigm from biology to artificial intelligence.” The idea is based on the so-called “time scale argument” or “short window observation.” Many researchers predict we’ll have developed a strong artificial intelligence by 2050 here on Earth — about a hundred years after the invention of computers, or a hundred and fifty years after the invention of radio communication. “The point is that, going from inventing radios to inventing thinking machines is very short — a few centuries at most. The dominant intelligence in the cosmos may well be non-biological.”
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute, and author of Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. I
