Joel Garreau believes we are moving towards a post-human future in which humanity will no longer exist as we know it. Just like Paul Virilio says we are becoming the technology. The merging of people and technology will mean that the way we understand what it means to be human no longer applies. There may still be “natural” people, but there will also be “enhanced” people who rely on the latest GRIN technology to augment their abilities. GRIN technology refers to genetic, robotic, information and nanological processes. According to the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, the genetic component will allow the reprogramming of biology away from diseases and aging. Genes exist as information, genes are software; we are learning how to change them. Our bodies are not built for our current society (obesity), our bodies try to retain every calorie (Ptolemy, 2009). There may be a tragedy in altering our genes that we don't fully understand. Millions of years of field testing have created who we are. There are two types of genetic technology. Somatic gene therapy is used to repair genes that are not working properly in a person. Not so controversial because it only changes the genes in the organs and is not passed on to the next generation (p. 116, Garreau, 2005). The other is germline interventions that change the genetic composition of the embryo early on. These changes will be replicated with each subsequent generation. It is worth pointing out that these changes are not always fully understood or it is not possible to see their unintended consequences. The building blocks of life are information, DNA, the genetic code. Information also increases exponentially with other technologies. The data collected and used comes from ex… half the paper… better than annihilation. So for me, prevailing is the only logical choice. Kurzweil's credits in Transcendent Man point out that Kurzweil believes the singularity will conveniently happen right before his death and much of his desire for the singularity stems from the loss of his father. The concern is what an AI's motivations are, it's hard to know what something smarter than a human would do and, more importantly, what it would want to do. From the film Transcendent Man Hugo de Grais believes that artificial intelligence would wipe out humanity. Any intelligence much more advanced than ours would view us as parasites in the same way we view ants. He believes that a “war of the claws” is imminent between those who favor advances in artificial intelligence and those who see the advent of super intelligence as a means to our own destruction (Ptolemy, 2009) .