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by Tom Mazanec » Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:51 am
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by Cool Breeze » Sun May 02, 2021 1:38 pm
Tom Mazanec wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:53 am Futurists and scifi writers, in general, tend to overestimate near term progress and underestimate long term progress. In the near term, they are thinking of the work currently being done on stuff and don't expect roadbumps in the way. In the long term, they can't take into account presently unknown discoveries that advance STEM fields. Also, history is extremely chaotic. A few Saudis in the desert changed the geopolitical structure of the world on September 11, 2001. A random submicroscopic viral mistake a couple years ago has killed three million and counting, crippled millions more and staggered the world's economy (John likes to invoke this in refusing to make specific predictions. He is right in that. But he has "inevitable" developments that have not happened in and it is getting late to claim they are "trending". But that's a diversion to your question).
by Tom Mazanec » Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:53 am
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by FishbellykanakaDude » Thu Dec 12, 2019 4:41 pm
John wrote:** 12-Dec-2019 World View: Time travel and immortality FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > Immortality, like "time travel", is an impossibility that will be > fruitfully striven for but never achieved, and in that failure > bring supreme happiness to the players and the audience of that > celestial play. Time travel is impossible to the past, but time travel to the future is possible. Just arrange for someone to freeze your body, and then thaw you out at whatever time you've specified. You've effectively traveled in time to the future, though of course you can't get back. And immortality? Well, there are people thinking about implementing the human brain in computer hardware and software. Once that system is available, you can upload your brain into that computer, and you'd be immortal, as long as you make sure to do regular backups. You can even arrange for your brain computer to be inside a good-looking humanoid robot, so you'd not only be immortal, but you'd even be young and hot. Robots Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kristanna Loken in the movie Terminator You could be immortal and look like one of those robots.
FishbellykanakaDude wrote: > Immortality, like "time travel", is an impossibility that will be > fruitfully striven for but never achieved, and in that failure > bring supreme happiness to the players and the audience of that > celestial play.
by John » Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:11 am
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