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In a testament to just how fast the coming cyberization of mankind has progressed, a new report published by the Daily Mail entitled, "Hitler would have loved The Singularity: Mind-blowing benefits of merging human brains and computers," reaffirms most of what I have been writing about for the better part of a year. Namely, that the merging of man and machine is much closer than the average person is willing to believe.

As computers begin to reach a human level of intelligence, some consideration must be given as to their concept of ethics. Appropriately aligning moral values will mean the difference between a contributing member of society and a sociopath. This artificial morality can be informed by the evolution of sociality in humans.

Future Net - Supported by STI International: www.sti2.org With more than a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime investigation concentrate of STI International and the Service Web 3.

A startup says natural language processing works best with human intelligence.

While still very early in its evolution and application, Siri is collecting a monster database of human behavior. Siri goes beyond "need" to "intent" - not what somebody wants, but why. Call it technographic, call it behavioral or call it semantic - whatever the term, Apple, not Google or Microsoft, may be ushering in the era of Web 3.0 and language-based search (and with it, capturing the ad dollars that will surely follow.)