at this juncture the world as we have known it will become extinct, and new definitions of life, nature, and human will take hold.
If the new self-replicating GNR technologies are released into the environment ... they could be nearly impossible to recall or control
Cloning is the growing of genetically identical cells, eliminating the natural role of human biology and bringing us closer to the Singularity.
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Genesis 11:4:
...let us build us ... a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven...
Genesis 11:6:
And the Lord said ... now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis 11:8:
So the Lord scattered them abroad...
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Then, of course, you have to have some anti-captitalist eco-babble:
the greatest dangers we face ultimately stem from a world where global corporations dominate ... within the now-unchallenged system of global capitalism and its manifold financial incentives and competitive pressures.
...and just plain eco-babble:
Joy warned that "knowledge alone will enable mass destruction"
what has been termed "The Sixth Extinction" is now under way. A simultaneous Harris Poll found that 60% of the public were totally unaware of the impending biological collapse.
nature's ancient biological creation is on the decline ... shreds of the ongoing biological collapse surface here and there.
...and just plain babble...
The true believers call themselves extropians, posthumans, and transhumanists
Extropians await the Singularity, seeking to overcome human limits, live indefinitely long, and become more intelligent through technology. Related groups include transhumanists and posthumanists.
...then there's techno-babble...
Kurzweil and many transhumanists define it as "a future time when societal, scientific, and economic change is so fast we cannot even imagine what will happen from our present perspective."
A distinctive feature will be that machine intelligence will have exceeded and even merged with human intelligence.
Nuclear bombs did not sprout more bombs, and toxic spills did not grow more spills
Oh, really?
Then there are just questions:
Moore noted that the number of transistors that could fit on a single computer chip had doubled every year for six years...
If man's speed doubled from about 40 mph in 1890, to [?] 4,000 mph in 1969 [Apollo Moon shots], does it follow that man will travel at 400,000 mph in 2030? [Not if he wishes to keep his head attached to his body...]
DARPA is working with Boeing to develop the X-45 unmanned combat air vehicle
Has this technology been OK'd by the START and INF Treaties? [Apparently the Predator has...]
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Yin summahry, lhet me shay this aboout that:
Balderdash!