[longtermmemmory]

not under Obama.

Obama needs more dead people.

[ReagansShinyHair]

All restaurants will also be bought out by Taco Bell.

[Frantzie]

Yeah but Ray Kurzweil forgets that with Obamacare we will not see it. Obama will keep lowering the age to kill off seniors. The Greatest Generation has to be put down ASAP. They actually know what The Constitution is.

[Secret Agent Man]

“Immortality only 20 years away say scientists”

Really....

Like such a claim has never been made before.

Too bad though, Algore already said the world will be over well before that. Global warming, you know. Or the super volcanoes may go off before then, or maybe we’ll run out of oil before then.

All the politicians, however, applauded in ecstacy, for now they’d have limitless taxes they could extract from people forever.

[al baby]

Immortal no thanks

[Nervous Tick]

>> Mr Kurzweil adds that although his claims may seem far-fetched

They do.

All I need to know is: what nanotechnology company is Kurzweil promoting, investing in, or “consulting” for, and when does he think the IPO will happen?

[KrisKrinkle]

“Virtual sex will become commonplace.”

Some might say we’ve had that since the first issue of Playboy.

Others would say we’ve had it since the first human “imagined”.

[pissant]

It’s called masturbation. Playboy capitalized on that 60 years ago.

[Need4Truth]

When will Social Security kick in?

[aquila48]

“Immortality Only 20 Years Away Says Scientist [Predicts”Virtual Sex Will Become Commonplace”]”

Was that a typo? Did he mean “Immorality”?

[earlJam]

..... and Obama claims this would not add to the deficit.

[reasonisfaith]

“nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively”

This is nonsense.

[mylife]

[massmike]

bookmark

[Dead Corpse]

There "immortal" and then there is "Immortal".

I would love to live long enough to run out of things to learn. Everything from wood working to astrophysics pose a draw for me. I don't have enough time in one lifetime to do everything I want to do.

Give me just another thousand years of healthy, early-middle age life and I could die contented.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Mr Kurzweil calls his theory the Law of Accelerating Returns.

Ray Kurzweil is a lot smarter than I am, but I get the impression that this is a mis-application of Moore's Law to technologies he thinks can combat aging.

Writing in The Sun, Mr Kurzweil said: "I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies' stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, ageing.

There's no doubt Kurzweil is right - the technology needed to control the aging process will be developed in the foreseeable future, but 20 years seems extremely unrealistic. I'd give it the rest of the century, at least - probably right after I drop dead of old age.

[attiladhun2]

Horseplop! When I was a kid they were predicting everyone would have a heliocopter and that flights to our lunar colonies would be commonplace. Didn’t happen, and neither will “immortality.”

[tflabo]

Scientist Ray Kurzweil claims humans could become immortal in as little as 20 years' time

Oh really??? Did the Almighty get the memo yet? They said the Titanic was impossible to sink too. Arrogance of man!

[potlatch]

I would not want to be Immortal, not unless it gave immunity to mental pain that would build up over time.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yea, right, and we will all be driving flying cars, too.