I just read another article on whether computers will one day surpass mankind.   Personally, I don't have much doubt. They are doubling in capacity every 18 months. Humans are barely evolving anymore.

 

Some predict a hybrid creature...part man, part machine. I have no doubt that will be tried and may even succeed but, in the long term, the biological component of such a merger will likely become irrelevant and the artificial component will emerge alone.

 

Imagine a species that can control its own evolution. One that can see weaknesses in design and change them. One that can see a need and then change itself to fit that need. A species with perfect memory, endless endurance, unlimited strength and intelligence, which doesn't age or die.

 

If computers learn to desire things, and I realize that's a big if, there's really no way we biologicals can compete. Our place in history will have been to create God.