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10000 Years From Now
Tweaked_Bat_
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...Vast Cities Floating in Perpetual Sunlight Miles Above the Earth's Surface and Individuals Propelled Through Space at Prodigious Speeds by Electro-Magnetic Power Are Predicted for the Future.
I ain't joking.
Personal robots?
Hell yeah:
Radical Advancements in Telecommunications?
That would be sweet.
Advanced Flying Machines?
Any day now we should have flying cars. Any day now.
Sexier Women?
I certainly hope so!
Anywhoo, you can get all this info and more from http://www.paleofuture.com/
So, SE++, what are your predictions for the future? Whether it's 100 years or 10000, in what ways do you believe the human race will advance?
I ain't joking.
Personal robots?
Hell yeah:
Radical Advancements in Telecommunications?
That would be sweet.
Advanced Flying Machines?
Any day now we should have flying cars. Any day now.
Sexier Women?
"Nature seems bent on producing a new race of Amazons. Within the next 50 years you'll find the emancipated woman engaging actively in such sports as football, baseball and soccer. She'll think nothing of chopping the wood and acting as family car mechanic."
I certainly hope so!
Anywhoo, you can get all this info and more from http://www.paleofuture.com/
So, SE++, what are your predictions for the future? Whether it's 100 years or 10000, in what ways do you believe the human race will advance?
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interesting read
manhatten is pretty screwy
it's like maintained entirely through direct human intervention
we go away one day and it will literally fall apart in a year
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probably
Your penis will be frightened and retreat back into your body, like a turtle hiding in it's shell.
So much snoo snoo.
age of spiritual machines is one of my favorite books
nonetheless his projections of the future terrify me
The Death Gene
Now usually when I post something like this, someone always comes along and says "This was falsified here is the link" or "This is not true", so I'm not holding my breath.
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blah blah blah blah singularity blah blah blah blah
you can replace every organ in the body and still be the same person
except the brain
the brain will inevitably degenerate. now, theoretically, you could regenerate or even replace that tissue over time as it burns out
but it's not going to be the same
instead of dying entirely, who you are as a person will slowly decay away with your memories as you grow older and you become someone new
in a way
it could be worse than death
There is a podcast called "Sentient Developments" that talks about this sorta stuff. It's not bad.
One of them is just an hour or so long lecture on the ramifications of life extension.
The only people left with souls will be the very young and the Amish.
Maybe there will be a treatment for that as well, supposedly we're still trying to figure out how to make out brains much more active - have more than the 10-15% used at once, which may help with memories.
Before my grandmother passed on, she told me she remembered her 3rd birthday, her 1st day in school, and a whole heap of other stuff that she remembered, my father said that she had not changed since she was young, so maybe in some people it won't be so bad.
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alright listen
i'm going to try
try very hard not to yell at you
were we speaking, there would be a deliberately even timbre to my voice
we use 100% of our brains 100% of the time.
that whole "10-15%" thing is a myth. a wildly misquoted theory from a school of neurological thought that we only use our brains at 10-15% of our theoretical capability.
if you have a car, you drive the whole car, not just the driveshaft and steering wheel. there is a theory that we are only driving our car at 20 mph when it could be kicking up to 150, but that's a theory
we're still driving the whole car
one of my profs would yell at people if they said that
he would just freak on them and threaten to throw them out
i think he over-reacted
nonetheless it bugs me too
I would have gone fine with "Sorry you're wrong about that", but yeah.
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dear god i can only hope
yeah, sorry
it's just annoyingly prevelant
i see lots of intelligent, otherwise respectable people repeat it
and it's like a viral thought pattern that needs to be cut out before it continues to spread
hrrrrrrrrrrk
Psychic powers is a shit load of fuck though.
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if we really used 100% of our brains 100% of the time we'd be bending spoons and levitating and shit lol
You just know that the day cybernetics becomes prevalent in everyday life that there are going to be people overclocking their brains to a ridiculous degree. So much so that they have to replace their spinal fluid with liquid nitrogen.
and that specific way is when we get so good at rewiring the brain through gene therapy that we can "fix" all mental illnesses.
i'm worried about what happens then, what we start seeing as illness and what is simply undesirable personality traits and shit.
like people think about eugenics and genetic tampering and they think of ultra-athletic blond aryan superchildren and that's not what upsets me, not really.
people are far too superficial to start doing that.
no, i'm worried when we start saying that we can simply correct people's minds.
not just what they think, how they think.
i mean, it's great to have the power to make the schizophrenic guy free of the voices that tell him to slaughter kittens
but man
man
EDIT: Oh hay I leave in a month for genetic engineering in university dur
no fucking way
not a chance in hell
my condition might make my life hard in lots of ways
but it's the only way i know, it's the only mind i've ever thought with. the idea that something, some drug no less, could just go and remove a fundamental aspect of who i am as a person is terrifying.