Posted on 11/03/2014 10:12:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
That an octopus called Paul had a better success rate than Goldman Sachs when predicting World Cup results (credit to the Wall Street Journal for the headline “Octopus Beats Vampire Squid”) tells you something about the wisdom of guessing the future in public.
Guessing what the world will look like in 50 years’ time, however, is pretty safe, as I won’t be here to see myself proved wrong. Or will I?
If Google’s director of engineering has his way, we’ll all be around indefinitely – in the cloud at least. AI (artificial intelligence) guru Ray Kurzweil is one of a number of technologists, inventors and futurists who believe that the ability to upload our minds to the web, create virtual bodies, and thereby live forever, is within touching distance.
Kurzweil invented the first flat-bed scanning and optical character recognition systems, foresaw the internet explosion and correctly predicted that a computer would beat a chess Grandmaster by the turn of the century. The 66-year-old thinks we’ll achieve digital immortality as soon as 2045, and takes 150 supplements a day as part of his efforts to get himself across the line.
Whether or not his vision for humanity (“increasingly non-biological to the point where the non-biological part dominates and the biological part is not important any more”) appeals to everyone is another matter....
(Excerpt) Read more at forumblog.org ...
Exactly and why I refuse to recycle!
You'll all be attending services at the local Mosque, and you'll be spending your free time memorizing passages from the Koran.
Reminds me of a joke about the Flintstones...
Huh...our progeny will know their ancestors by their archived Facebook profiles. “Hey, did you see grandad’s post from July 2015? That’s not grandma....”
I feel very, very fortunate that I am old enough that I won’t live to see even 2025.
I’ve watched the good old American lifestyle and morals decay since the 1950’s and it has been on a free fall since those days. I see no chance of anything changing the direction and speed of that graph toward the bottom in the future.
The election of Obama along with total government support of ALL special interests, racial, moral and gender issues guarantees that prediction.
Having given up their guns around 2025, once referred to as Americans, will be using designer prayer rugs.
World wide North Korea, The worst Indian slum all over, Soylent Green.
I’ll be moving a little slower at 111.
Idiocracy. Anyone with a brain will be considered to be a ‘tard. Throw in the Handicapper General to boot.
Or Jesus’ feet have already touched the Mount of Olives.
Photoshopped: they put the head of somebody else on my body.
Make that: Cold, short and brutish....like the DNC...............
Sounds like fun.
Really sad if that is the best image of what comes after this life he can come up with.
I’m more optimistic, but the reset is going to be brutal.
I've read comic books that were more coherent.
Regards,
It is hilarious how the dream of immortality / heaven exists even when one is atheist - hence “The Singularity” myth that we’ll upload our brains to supercomputers and live in perfect virtual worlds forever.
These things remain stubbornly defined in the human mind, even when every attempt is made to dismiss them as so much evolutionary flotsam and jetsam.
silly you, would you bet your life on a comic book?
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