Richard Jones pretty much offered indisputable proof of this on the nanotech front. The best that we'll end up with is a wide variety of narrow, weak AI's that can do better than humans at maybe 1-2 particular things. That's a far cry from most people's definition of "singularity." Read Giulio Tononi or Scott Aronson's works to see what I mean.-noam23,kurzweilai forums
The thing is synthetic biology is capable of more much more than natural biology. And it can probably replicate the best of our tech, such as optical fiber for long range communications. The myelinated axon is slow bandwidth digital channel of very high latency. An optical fiber could send far more information at far greater speed.
We also have to take into account what will happen with brain machine interfaces. Human communication will evolve to incorporate qualia, even never before experienced qualia. It will be like the difference between prelanguage animals and postlanguage animals, humans. When communication involves custom qualia language, able to transmit things far more efficiently and to provide intuitive grasp to pretty much any field. Can you imagine that? Even barring the reality that genetic modification even with just the presently available gene pool witll sky rocket iq, a qualia language will revolutionize the exchange of information between agents taking them literally to higher dimensions.
A collection of humans with native qualia language should be able to accomplish far more than humans with their more rudimentary language closer to the beasts, just as language has allowed us to transcend the beasts, so will a higher form of language allow for higher advances. I would call such qualiange.
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