[CharlesOConnell]

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be. - Matthew 6:21

[Diogenesis]

Stevie Wonder and FReepers think you are an idiot.

[jsanders2001]

Fedgov supports Kurzwell’s idea - amn implant to make us “gods” in every skull (with hidden programming suubroutines embedded but we won’t talk about that). The feds will require built in GPS and WIFI capabilities I’m sure.

[mylife]

Didn’t this guy make crappy electronic keyboards too?

[Olog-hai]

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: / For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

— Genesis 3:4-5

Just another serpent repeating what his forefather said a few millennia ago.

[sparklite2]

tl;dr

OK

[Little Ray]

Kurzweil is waaaaaaaay beyond the echelons of reality here.

Two things:
1. Malware and hacking.
2. Software bugs.

So, you want to be “godlike” with robots in your brain?

What are you going to do when some vicious bastard puts malware on them, or hacks them?

And what are you going to do when your robots start running into bugs int their software?

There are more lines of code on a smart phone than any one human can write, much less debug, in a lifetime. There will be even more in your robots. Bugs will only multiply.

Firewalls will never be good enough to allow people to safely merge their brains and the net. Likewise, error handling will never be sufficient to protect users allowing software to run on their ‘bots.

I used to think there might be something to mind/machine interfaces. Now I just think they would be a major hazard to civilization.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Sure, you can never die. But what kind of eternity would it be, to have to live in a universe of lies, deceit, hatred, violence, mayhem & murder.

Let's just leave that up to each individual to decide for himself or herself. And let's leave the word "God" out of all this - that's not the point. Kurzweil is one of the few real geniuses in the world today - while the work he's pioneering isn't likely to benefit anyone alive today, it will have profound consequences for the people of the future.

[left that other site]

I was never able to afford a Kurzweil, and had to be content to make my living on a Panasonic Technics KN5000.

I put all my settings and shows on 3.5” floppies and thought it was wonderful.

But every time i drove past the Kurzweil factory in Waltham, I wondered if, somehow, it was a better keyboard because it was so darn expensive!