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20 years till immortality
Topic Started: Sep 26 2009, 01:10 AM (860 Views)
Halfwing Aeon
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science...-scientist.html

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The 61-year-old American, who has predicted new technologies arriving before, says our understanding of genes and computer technology is accelerating at an incredible rate.

He says theoretically, at the rate our understanding is increasing, nanotechnologies capable of replacing many of our vital organs could be available in 20 years time.

Mr Kurzweil adds that although his claims may seem far-fetched, artificial pancreases and neural implants are already available.

Mr Kurzweil calls his theory the Law of Accelerating Returns. 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. Then nanotechnology will let us live for ever.

"Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively.

"Within 25 years we will be able to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath, or go scuba-diving for four hours without oxygen.

"Heart-attack victims – who haven't taken advantage of widely available bionic hearts – will calmly drive to the doctors for a minor operation as their blood bots keep them alive.

"Nanotechnology will extend our mental capacities to such an extent we will be able to write books within minutes.

"If we want to go into virtual-reality mode, nanobots will shut down brain signals and take us wherever we want to go. Virtual sex will become commonplace. And in our daily lives, hologram like figures will pop in our brain to explain what is happening.

"So we can look forward to a world where humans become cyborgs, with artificial limbs and organs."


ok, just be sure not to get hit by a bus in the next 20 years and were good to go.
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And to think our civilization was dead now
There is no good or evil, just different ppl with different beliefs
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Or if the Iranians don't start WW3. And if we all live forever (or an extraordinarily long time), there's going to need to be some serious population control. Or we'll need to colonize other planets in a hurry.

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lets build a bionic planet.
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Ok, you get to work on that...

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ok but you supply the cash
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What, you expect me to take away from my ammo money to build some sort of new planet. HA! I'll just take care of all the pompous idiots who'll become immortal. That'll be more cost effective and entertaining.

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http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912


This short story describes the world that man was talking about.

its like 9 pages, give it a read!
Through Chaos Comes order.

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i want my robo arm NAOW!!!!all the ladies would want me if i had a robo arm

its neat though to think within our lifetime, we might be able to see this kind of stuff become a reality
eww, my avi's all grainy...
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Golden Pope
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but would any of us be able to afford it?
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No....

But one of us could come up with some sort of ultra left wing idea, promote it, deny that we ever said what there's taped footage of about this idea, and then get a high level "special adviser to the president" aka Czar position in the Obama administration, then get a federal bailout for our friends, aka the rest of the group, which would be named in a way that implies a sleeper cell (like Acorn, which will grow to be a giant oak, or Tsunami; both of which are real left wing "community organizing" groups), and we'll have all the funding we ever need, and we can call anyone who opposes us racists (through the left wing media and worthless former presidents like Clinton and Carter) even though we're white. Then, we can build the bionic planet under the cover of a government project with no government oversight.

It's the perfect plan. It would work. It worked for Van Jones and all of Obama's Czars.

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some days you scare the :censored: outa me...... Lets do it!
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It really wasn't my idea. This sort of convoluted thought process is what's running our government.

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I want robot eyes.
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actually if more money is put into stem cell research we could easily get genetic engineering up to that level WELL before we get robotics to the point of self replicating nanotechnology.

Getting a genetically modified stem cell graft could easily be used to fix the "flaw" in our regenerative system. that causes our body's to naturally decay over time. That would give us immortality, and, after more research could even speed up our healing to the point that something as small as a papercut instantly, and lost limbs in as little as a few months or years. Do to the nature of stem cells, the procedure MIGHT even be hereditary.

After that our lives would be significantly extended to the point that we COULD perfect nano technology that would further enhace our regenerative abilitys far behond the stem cells alone could.

with further research we could even begin to enhance other ability's of the human body, underwater breathing (enhance our lungs to pull the oxygen from water), super strength (replace our bones and muscle with denser material that wouldnt become damaged as easily), super speed (humans our already the best runners on the planet, enhancing that would probably be the easiest.)

which due to the constant increases in life expectancy from the nanotech and stem cells could EASILY happen in our time
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