Skip to comments.
Humans 'will become God-like cyborgs within 200 years'
telegraph.co.uk ^
| Sarah Knapton
Posted on 05/25/2015 5:30:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61 next last
To: cyborg
To: RoosterRedux
a historian has claimed Historians are notoriously bad at predicting the future. In fact, they are not even all that good at predicting the past.
3
posted on
05/25/2015 5:32:03 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
To: RoosterRedux
4
posted on
05/25/2015 5:32:25 AM PDT
by
abclily
To: ClearCase_guy
Heheh. Right.
That said, you can see that we are already becoming cyborgs. People with telephones attached to their ears and iphones glued to their hands.
Just wait until HoloLens and Oculus Rift are released. People will never leave their dens except to go to the grocery store.
5
posted on
05/25/2015 5:35:28 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
To: RoosterRedux
Still waiting for my flying car and roboservant.
To: RoosterRedux
> I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being...
Obama doesn’t need to be upgraded accrdingbto him and is altar kneelers
To: RoosterRedux
> I think it is likely in the next 200 years or so homo sapiens will upgrade themselves into some idea of a divine being...
Obama doesn’t need to be upgraded accrdingbto him and his altar kneelers
To: RoosterRedux
Bruce Sterling did some interesting science fiction work, imagining that a "post-human" future takes two philosophical paths. On the one hand, there are Mechanists who end up with artificial eyes and limbs and who use prosthetics to live longer and be better. On the other hand, there are Shapers who use genetic technology to eliminate disease and aging and maximize the body's inherent potential.
Of course, a combination of the two may be the most realistic path forward. But for Sterling, it became almost a religious war between the Mechanists and the Shapers are to who was an abomination and who were the rightful heirs to the old human societies.
9
posted on
05/25/2015 5:41:14 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I could see such a war early on. But I think, rightly or wrongly, the cyborgs will leave the purists in the dust.
I think I would choose to be a purist.
10
posted on
05/25/2015 5:44:37 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
To: RoosterRedux
And resistance will be...Futile.
11
posted on
05/25/2015 5:45:20 AM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
(...Was that okay?)
To: RoosterRedux
And how do we know we aren’t the result of programming by some earlier entity?
12
posted on
05/25/2015 5:45:33 AM PDT
by
grania
To: jsanders2001
Obama's over confidence is his greatest weakness.
He's an idiot...but just doesn't know it.
13
posted on
05/25/2015 5:46:00 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
To: RoosterRedux
Things futurists predicted: Flying cars. Thinking computers. Weather control. Martian colonies.
Things futurists didn't predict: The internet. Cell phones. Gays becoming a dominant class. The continual rise of Islam.
I take this articles prediction with the above-noted grains of salt.
14
posted on
05/25/2015 5:46:13 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(America has less than a year left.)
To: RoosterRedux
Islamists will destroy civilization before science fiction has a chance to become reality.
15
posted on
05/25/2015 5:47:52 AM PDT
by
Awgie
(truth is always stranger than fiction)
To: RoosterRedux
Uh-huh. It’s tough to replace the soul with machine parts.
16
posted on
05/25/2015 5:48:14 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: grania
And how do we know we arent the result of programming by some earlier entity?If I am any proof, the programmer was pretty sloppy.;-)
Actually, I see all this through a Judeo/Christian prism. And it is Satanic powers who plant the seed of dissatisfaction in human beings which causes them to want to become gods.
17
posted on
05/25/2015 5:49:22 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
To: RoosterRedux
Even when humans gain pleasure and achievements it is not enough. They want more and more."Could this explain *Crinton's numerous concubines?
18
posted on
05/25/2015 5:51:53 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Embrace the suck)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Its tough to replace the soul with machine partsI think the goals re: cyborgs is to keep the soul and parts of the body alive as long as possible...and doing so by blending such with machine parts.
19
posted on
05/25/2015 5:52:45 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
To: Libloather
As every drug user knows, the more you get, the more you need.
20
posted on
05/25/2015 5:54:09 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson