Re: Clinical immortality- Do you want to live forever?
This stuck me as udderly false and illogical.
Can I even begin to list of the implications of making someone immortal? The problems that would immediately arise, both moral, political, interpersonal, economical? Who's going to fund this research when there are more immediate things that can be developed? Who's going to fund it when the majority of the politcal party would be against it in the first place?
I don't even think right now, if we were able to immortalize ourselves it would even take off. It would be burried as fast as it rose. Cloning, anyone?
For example... Water as a fuel? I was reading some more information on it and a lot of people have been getting into it, it's definitely possible to run a motor on water.
Will it take off? Hah, I doubt it. Can you imagine how many money making fiends would go bankrupt? I mean, politics here. It'll never happen, atleast, not quickly. It will slowly emerge into the system as it HAS to, not because it can.
We can go to Mars. Hell, I'd say if we had to, 3 years. But we don't have to, which is why it will be prolonged as long as possible. The russians already said it would be possible in like 2 years as I recall, yet we probably won't put men on it untill 2040.
I wouldn't expect anyone to seriously start investing in developing something to make us immortal <_>
It'll come anyway. Just not in the way we think it'll come.
Immortality won't be a pill. It won't be cloning. It won't be anything like that. It'll be artificial intelligence ;o Assuming, which it should be, that it is possible to create something more intelligent and efficient than ourselves I don't see why it wouldn't begin to integrate into us and eventually replace us. Organs will begin to be replaced. People will start genetically modifying children. Artificial modifications to organs and body parts will begin to replace real ones ( pace maker is just the beginning ^_^)...and from there it will only continue.
Not like it's going to happen fast, but to me, it seems inevitable... unless it is impossible, but I doubt it. If completely natural processes eventually formed our brain, then it is possible to create one of equal or greater intelligence (much greater once we figure out how to replicate 'conciousness')...though I mean, if I was to guess we won't be artificial beings untill like, closer to 12000 AD maybe.
If it were possible, people would be clamoring to get it done faster.
Can I even begin to list of the implications of making someone immortal? The problems that would immediately arise, both moral, political, interpersonal, economical? Who's going to fund this research when there are more immediate things that can be developed? Who's going to fund it when the majority of the politcal party would be against it in the first place?
I don't even think right now, if we were able to immortalize ourselves it would even take off. It would be burried as fast as it rose. Cloning, anyone?
For example... Water as a fuel? I was reading some more information on it and a lot of people have been getting into it, it's definitely possible to run a motor on water.
Will it take off? Hah, I doubt it. Can you imagine how many money making fiends would go bankrupt? I mean, politics here. It'll never happen, atleast, not quickly. It will slowly emerge into the system as it HAS to, not because it can.
We can go to Mars. Hell, I'd say if we had to, 3 years. But we don't have to, which is why it will be prolonged as long as possible. The russians already said it would be possible in like 2 years as I recall, yet we probably won't put men on it untill 2040.
I wouldn't expect anyone to seriously start investing in developing something to make us immortal <_>
It'll come anyway. Just not in the way we think it'll come.
Immortality won't be a pill. It won't be cloning. It won't be anything like that. It'll be artificial intelligence ;o Assuming, which it should be, that it is possible to create something more intelligent and efficient than ourselves I don't see why it wouldn't begin to integrate into us and eventually replace us. Organs will begin to be replaced. People will start genetically modifying children. Artificial modifications to organs and body parts will begin to replace real ones ( pace maker is just the beginning ^_^)...and from there it will only continue.
Not like it's going to happen fast, but to me, it seems inevitable... unless it is impossible, but I doubt it. If completely natural processes eventually formed our brain, then it is possible to create one of equal or greater intelligence (much greater once we figure out how to replicate 'conciousness')...though I mean, if I was to guess we won't be artificial beings untill like, closer to 12000 AD maybe.
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