In the long run, if we can avoid global cataclysm, we will have to adapt, and re-engineer humanity or hyper-intelligent machines will out compete us. Unlike ou

In the long run, if we can avoid global cataclysm, we will have to adapt, and re-engineer humanity or hyper-intelligent machines will out compete us. Unlike our descendants, present day humans have the great and rare privilege of enjoying apex predator status. The machine still works for us. And in 2015 the machines are getting really good: inexpensive, intelligent, rapidly evolving and networked. And so now the primary ambition in my life is to become a god of the intelligent networked machine. To master the machine, subjugate it and make it work for me to improve my material situation. Arduino, RepRap, CNC, sensors, laser cutters, LEDs, solar photovoltaic, the web. These are the lego blocks with which we can build a new, smarter, more humane world, one where humans are freed and machines toil for us. Right now I have a RepRap producing parts for a new contraption I built, I have a VPS serving requests 24 hours a day, and in enough iterations my contraption and my VPS will be in communication. The real world, and the virtual, working in concert to improve my comfort, security and material prosperity, and that of others. "When looms weave themselves human's slavery will end" - Aristotle We are getting closer. There is so much more to learn, so much more to be done.