IMMORTALITY
I read an article that said by 2020 the thousand dollar computer will be as smart as a human brain. By 2030 we will have computer nanobots that will be able to go directly in the blood stream and up to the brain and map out everything from your first memories to your own personal personality traits - then all that would need to happen would to store this memory into a walking Artificial intelligence.
People believe that people my age will never have to die technology will increase and will be able to replicate us in A.I. Also you would be able to take virtual trips all over the world by shutting down your senses and replacing them with artificial senses your trip exploring France would not be any less real then actually going there
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/
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Wow .. alot of cool stuff on that website! I've always been intrigued by the "Technological Singularity" idea.
iRobot - the movie with Will Smith was based on this premise - that one day we'll create a super-human machine that will be able to think on it's own, making decisions that may or may not be a benefit to man.
I like what you read better - that we'll create a way to merge with these machines to live forever. although, "living" forever (inside some machine) may not be that great. i think life is good short - knowing everything has a beginning and an end is easier to put my mind around.
Although - if this article is correct - then there is no question, in my future robot state i will so kick Matt's future robot state's ass.
That's a cool website Steve-O. They have all kinds of interesting hypothetical theory's. It made me think of this story I heard not entirely relevant but def. something that I had never known.
It was about spiders. I guess spiders have the ability to ride air currents with their web. They design their web into a pouch like shapes very similar to a balloon. Many times this is how they travel far distances. This article was explaining that in some instances these spiders are carried up so high that they actually break out of earth's atmosphere. In traveling this high the spider's body freezes making them like a bear during hibernation (only frozen).
What was really cool about this is that when you freeze many insects then thaw them out they're still alive. So the article was explaining that theoretically once frozen these spiders could be thrusts across the universe and then thawed out once they reached a new planet, or environment that heated them up. Claiming that spiders may actually be able to travel, survive and then live on planets far far away.