In order to have any type of free will, a being must be aware of itself. With out this awareness, there is no benchmark of basic needs on which it needs to survive. If we, as humans, did not know that we were alive, we would not eat, breathe, or do anything else for that matter. Technically, and existentially we would simply not exist (pardon the redundancy). We humans have created something that can do things that we can not. We have created machines that can think faster than us, work harder than us, and pretty much manage everything in our every day lives. If the idiom of computer grow twice as more powerful every 18 monthes, then in a 1000 years (or less) something is going to happen. Something big.

Really, really big.

At the risk of retelling The Matrix, the simple idea of a machine becoming aware of itself is a truly scary thought. The symbiosis of man and machine will change greatly. As research in nanotechnology becomes more and more perfected, a simply micro procesor could be in everything. From a computer, to a wall, to your own head. And in this telecom revelution that started in the 90's, who knows what will control what and who is who and worst of all where reality really is. A blur of tech and bio will most likely occur, with bionic, six million dollar men roaming the earth, however this time they will have no music. Reality will be scewed by a wealth, or possibly an over abundency of information. Where simply small talk today about the weather will one day be obsolete as we download it as easily as we blink our own eyes. Will it be gradual, this change? or will it all of a sudden hit us? will Arnold really pop out of some portal to terminate our human savior? or will we simply learn to control this possible breach of AI? whatever it is, I won't see it. Because I'll be dead. And right now, that doesn't sound so bad.