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The Human-Techno Future: How Weird? How Soon?
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2005
| Sean Markey
Posted on 08/05/2005 5:14:58 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
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To: va4me
Interesting article, I recommend Ray Kurzweil's books and daily newsletter for anyone interested in these topics. Isn't he the guy who developed a reading machine for the blind?
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posted on
08/05/2005 10:18:11 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
To: Salgak
I'm working on several Hollywood starlets in the basement. (evil grin)I'll bet that so far you have only developed the inflatable version. :-)
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posted on
08/05/2005 10:21:19 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
To: All
To: mmercier
Actually, the human race might be deemed obsolete. Some morning in 2035+ you might wake up to find an AI operated bulldozer tearing down your house.
To: Mind-numbed Robot
Isn't he the guy who developed a reading machine for the blind? Yes, I believe so.
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posted on
08/06/2005 5:21:52 AM PDT
by
va4me
To: GOP_1900AD
We wouldn't need to use full human clones for organ harvesting when we can just clone the organ itself.
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posted on
10/28/2005 10:19:19 PM PDT
by
Tree of Liberty
(requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
To: Fitzcarraldo
you might wake up to find an AI operated bulldozer tearing down your house.
The solution to this is simple; lie down in front of the bulldozer. (Inside joke.)
Dr. Ransom
FaithFusion.net
Speaking only for those with ears to hear
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posted on
10/31/2005 6:16:57 AM PST
by
DoctorRansom
("Alert and in first-class fighting trim")
To: GOP_1900AD
A failure to ban human cloning will result in a new "stealth" slavery that will be more contentious than the original slavery. Why on earth would it lead to any such thing? Human cloning has occurred in nature for as long as humans have existed without this result coming to pass.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:51:13 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: steve-b
One "me" with rights, 100 "me's," which I commissioned the creation of, with no rights. I send my 100 me's to go do dirty work, or kill them and take their organs. If that's not the most vile form of slavery every conceived, then I don't know what is.
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:21:37 AM PST
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: Momaw Nadon; cyborg
How wierd will the technofuture be? And how soon?
By June of next year, an ordinary American man will have a cyborg for a wife!
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:23:40 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: GOP_1900AD
Sorry. Your "100 me's" will be babies or juveniles unless you started 'em about the time you were born, or maybe a bit later.
So what you'll have are 100 teenage "me's" eatin' you outta house and home and complaining about your snooping.
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:31:27 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
To: GOP_1900AD
Again, since no such thing has happened with existing human clones, why would it suddenly happen now?
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posted on
11/01/2005 11:34:44 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: steve-b; Little Ray
We agree to disagree. I am sticking to my views.
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posted on
11/01/2005 5:42:23 PM PST
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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