I am a big advocate of the 'singularity' described by Ray Kurzweil. In his book he describes a future where artificial intelligence is not only part of your daily routine, but also your biology.
I have been thinking a lot about this and wonder if these new AI beings would accept traditional currencies or would only 'trust' the reliability of the blockchain.
What do you think?
I would think that money would become irrelevant in a post-singularitarian world. Money exists because we have limited goods and resources. A post-singularitarian economy would be a post-scarcity economy, and so the need for money would no longer exist.
Also, I predict that the sci-fi scenario of humans and machines being equal in intelligence will only last a year or two at most. Once machines become equal in intelligence to us, almost immediately they will become much better. After another year or so, the divide between machines and modern-day humans would resemble the divide between humans and cats or dogs today (remember: Moore's law breaks down after the singularity). Humans probably won't go extinct. Rather, advancements in bio-engineering (or more specifically, the convergence of biology, computer science, and nanoscience) would mean that the distinction between man and machine will cease to exist.
