Quote Originally Posted by Son-of-Liberty View Post
I don't see why there would be any reason to merge with machines. You can harness technology, use it to a great degree without directly interfacing with it.

There are always kinks to be worked out with new technology and the people who think this is cool and get into it will pay the price. Just think of the side effects from taking a drug to control a symptom and multiply that 100 fold.
The human brain has biological limitations that naturally limit it's ability to compute mass information.
Augmentation will become necessary as the information base exponentially explodes beyond human's ability to comprehend, let alone manage or control.

The struggle will be to remain in control of artificial intelligence technologies as they begin to learn and self replicate.