Posted on 01/27/2013 10:33:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die? My plan is to stick around. Well get to a point about 15 years from now where were adding more than a year every year to your life expectancy.
To clarify, youre predicting your immortality. The problem is I cant get on the phone with you in the future and say, Well, Ive done it, I have lived forever, because its never forever.
You have described microscopic nanobots of the future that will be able to shape shift into anything, even gather into patterns that mimic familiar life-forms. So millions of nanobots will be running around that look just like Ray Kurzweil? This idea of creating a whole virtual body with nanobots, thats more like a 2050 scenario. But by the 2030s well be putting millions of nanobots inside our bodies to augment our immune system, to basically wipe out disease. One scientist cured Type I diabetes in rats with a blood-cell-size device already....
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1 Timothy 6:20 comes to mind too. The religion of pseudoscience.
The siren song of Satan; the impetus for the Tower of Babel: Man can forge his own salvation without God.
Ray Kurzweill is an idiot, a conceited idiot.
Kurzweil is extrapolating well beyond known science.
Yes, we ARE learning to live longer. That does not imply there are no limits: we just haven’t found them yet.
For example, what happens when the brain runs out of plasticity for memory storage ??
Do we stop learning and memory just. . .stops ???
He is wrong. By at least an infinite number of years. Unless by “live forever” he is speaking about the afterlife life.
He is wrong. By at least an infinite number of years. Unless by “live forever” he is speaking about the afterlife life.
Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 January 11, 2007), was saying this back in the 1970s. Based on the startling medical advances he saw in his lifetime, he was quite sure he would live forever.
Oh well.
I'm impressed. In the first month of this new year, we may have already seen the most ignorant and asinine comment of 2013 award winner.
Congratulations, Buddy!
I had heart surgery that cured my case of atrial fibrillation a month ago. I was in the hospital one day and out the next. The procedure was pure science fiction compared to what was available ten years ago.
Likely procedures ten years from now will also be considered to be science fiction by today’s standards.
Back in 2007, Newt Gingrich said that there would be more technological change in the next 30 years than in the last 200 years. Since then two major technological revolutions have occurred: Telephones have essentially become computers, and the shale oil fracking revolution has put America on the path to energy independence.
I’m sure the miracle I experienced in the hospital is experienced by others in thousands of other small inventions.
This idea of creating a whole virtual body with nanobots, thats more like a 2050 scenario. But by the 2030s well be putting millions of nanobots inside our bodies to augment our immune system, to basically wipe out disease. One scientist cured Type I diabetes in rats...Social Security reform now! ;')
I would think that somebody as supposedly connected to current trends would have heard of the Affordable Care Act.
I suspect that within 40-50 years, or less, average life expectancy will actually decline. Euthanasia has already become acceptable in certain circles. It will soon see widespread legalization, and then widespread practice.
The concept of immortality does not square with the culture of death.
They can't tell the difference between human beings and machines. This is nerdism in the extreme.
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