Ray Kurzweil Predicts Human Immortality in 20 Years
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Bah, impossible I say but assuming it is true it'll be so fun. The "purists/naturalists" with their EMP devices combatting the "augmented/transhuman". Ill be chilling on the sidelines on a deckchair; a nicely chilled pan galactic gargle blaster in one hand, and a laser pointer that can direct airstrikes of bombs and toxic gas in the other.
Yea sure would be fun to have the same boring routine for the rest of your life, 2k years, you know if you don't really age there is going to be no retirement, your going to working your same damn job for the rest of you life raising your kids that now take 200 years to reach maturity instead of 18. In your tiny apartment cause houses now take up too much space for the population we now have. Yea sounds fun huh.Christemo said:
Can I just say. NANO technology?
Seriously, this is almost atomic level. We can barely make things microscopic. Seriously, whilst we may be able to do genetic manipulation, NANO is CENTURIES away.
Seriously, this is almost atomic level. We can barely make things microscopic. Seriously, whilst we may be able to do genetic manipulation, NANO is CENTURIES away.
What hole have you been living, we already have nano machines, they just aren't widely used because of high cost and they are still being tested.DarkLordofDevon said:
This sounds like the kinda stuff I rant about to my friends as they facepalm.
Yeah, I believe this is true, but first we really need to go more into nanorobotics and looking at the structure of DNA and the way it affects the body, only then I think we will be able to live forever.
Then we can go Terraform Mars and that'll be bitching!
Yeah, I believe this is true, but first we really need to go more into nanorobotics and looking at the structure of DNA and the way it affects the body, only then I think we will be able to live forever.
Then we can go Terraform Mars and that'll be bitching!
I was having a conversation about this the other day...
While its all certainly possible with nano-technology, whats fucking scary is the militaries use for nanotechnology.
This from a fucking general in the military!
"We hope to create a cloud of nano-machines that can fly through an enemy encampment, and destroy its infrastructure."
And
"Those same nano-clouds could get into enemy combatants blood streams, and destroy them from the inside out."
Seriously, that shit is crazy!
So I propose one thing.
Never let the worlds military touch nano-tech unless its actually benefiting humans, and doesn't destroy them! (3 laws, and such)...
The other obvious problem is, by having nano-tech in your body, its going to lead to say, a wi-fi connection between you and your PC, or even between people.
So we are going to go from our standard bacteria/virus/ect which will virtually be wiped out from nano-immune systems, to having actual 'computer virus's screwing us over majorily!
In SG1 there was even that 'race' they proytrayed, where the nano-tech replaced there immune system so completely, that there natural basically got eliminated. Which is a very real possibility... So they would have to have any nano-immune system work with our natural one, or aid it, but not eliminate it. (The hard part is, obviously that our immune system would attack the nano-tech.)
While its all certainly possible with nano-technology, whats fucking scary is the militaries use for nanotechnology.
This from a fucking general in the military!
"We hope to create a cloud of nano-machines that can fly through an enemy encampment, and destroy its infrastructure."
And
"Those same nano-clouds could get into enemy combatants blood streams, and destroy them from the inside out."
Seriously, that shit is crazy!
So I propose one thing.
Never let the worlds military touch nano-tech unless its actually benefiting humans, and doesn't destroy them! (3 laws, and such)...
The other obvious problem is, by having nano-tech in your body, its going to lead to say, a wi-fi connection between you and your PC, or even between people.
So we are going to go from our standard bacteria/virus/ect which will virtually be wiped out from nano-immune systems, to having actual 'computer virus's screwing us over majorily!
In SG1 there was even that 'race' they proytrayed, where the nano-tech replaced there immune system so completely, that there natural basically got eliminated. Which is a very real possibility... So they would have to have any nano-immune system work with our natural one, or aid it, but not eliminate it. (The hard part is, obviously that our immune system would attack the nano-tech.)
Not by the dictionary definition of nano. We're making them small, but not that small.KoreyGM said:
Oh yeah, i loled when i heard that from my momCajt said:
Sounds completely the same though. I'm betting this guy is probably off by at least 50 years though. Can't say i know anything about this however.
Edit: Hah yeah! XD What if there was some computerised virus created for this new nanotech. Well with every high, comes a low.
This ssems really cool. Although, how quickly will first-gen nanomachines become "last generation". Like when they first come out, people can sprint for 15 minutes, take four hour dives, etc. But what about the next gen? Will a person eventaully become superman? If so, this is awesome, and yet weird...
