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Ray Kurzweil believes we'll have technology to live forever in 2029
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Sat Jul 21, 12 6:09 amby Aidan
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe ... rever.html
Kurzweil has said it himself = It's going to happen
Excuse me while I play hard reset. My cyberpunk senses are tingling.
Posted:
Sat Jul 21, 12 6:16 amby Kaiden
Sounds fun, but naturally brings up the obvious question of population control when the population is only expanding.
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Sat Jul 21, 12 6:19 amby Aidan
Kaiden wrote:population control
hard reset
Have you ever looked at the sky in that game?
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Sat Jul 21, 12 6:24 amby Kaiden
Dunno what it is!
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Sat Jul 21, 12 6:26 amby Aidan
LAYERS.
When we've exhausted our surface area, we can always 'look up' to new ideas
(that was
really bad, lol)
I wish I were born 1000 years from now. Would be crazy.
http://icrontic.com/uploads/features/20 ... et_big.jpg
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Sat Jul 21, 12 6:35 amby Kaiden
could have at least used Deus Ex m8
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Sat Jul 21, 12 6:50 amby Aidan
OH SHIT. Completely forgot.
I'm on a Hard Reset spree lately, so I forgot about that, lol.
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Sat Jul 21, 12 7:25 amby Psychotic
Aidan wrote:I wish I were born 1000 years from now. Would be crazy.
It would be, except for those born in that time period. It'd be "just another day" to them.
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Sun Jul 22, 12 9:03 amby Psychotic
I believe we'll have technology to live forever, at some point. I believe it's ignorant to think we won't but I don't believe we'll have it by 2029.
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Sun Jul 22, 12 9:06 amby Aidan
Magniir wrote:I believe we'll have technology to live forever, at some point. I believe it's ignorant to think we won't but I don't believe we'll have it by 2029.
Oh I agree. It's optimistic; but the world is in too much of a rut at the moment to say "hey! you can live forever in 20 years and it will be affordable!." I would say more along the lines of 40 years, which is fine by me if I can reverse my age
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Mon Jul 23, 12 12:27 amby Aidan
I'm not going to let him wreck it though.
Here, check this out...
http://www.markdice.com/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=89
2099 predictions are VERY cool...
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Mon Jul 23, 12 12:50 amby Psychotic
Anyone can make a prediction, what I find more interesting is how and why a person would predict what they do. If they truly believe what they're saying (as opposed to being a mere marketing stunt) then how do they come to such conclusions?
Prediction should not be merely "guessing" something. I can do that, and given enough predictions I will be right eventually.
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Mon Jul 23, 12 1:07 amby Aidan
Oh of course; but what impresses me, is that Kurzweil is just about always right. It's not the initial prediction that get's me...
...It's the fact that he's on the dot with the year as well.
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Mon Jul 23, 12 1:50 amby Psychotic
So was Nostradamus apparently but people fail to realise he made large numbers of predictions, many of which were else false or extremely exaggerated by mistranslation after mistranslation.
After the initial earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, there was a man going around making subsequent predictions. When he was right he would be praised and get much media attention and glory. The problem people failed to realise was that he made numerous predictions on his blog and most of them were based on nothing but guesswork. The guy made so many predictions that one was bound to be true sooner or later, and he called his predictions "true" because of this.
I don't know Kurzweil though, and so I do not know how many so-called "predictions" he has made, but I've seen and heard enough predictions in my short lifetime to become very cynical and jaded by anything being claimed by a random stranger I've never ever heard of.
This is why I would much rather know how they come to such conclusion. The man in my example above made numerous false predictions but each one he made he believed was true. What I found more interesting wasn't that he was talking bullshit but that he was trying to back up his claims with scientific data. Ultimately, he could have been trying to ruse everyone (and I believe he was, personally) but he had more reasons for his predictions than "God told me, dickz."
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Wed Jul 25, 12 10:23 amby ynnaD
If this technology could be available by then, the question is , would you really wanna live forever?
Think about it
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Wed Jul 25, 12 10:52 amby Psychotic
It'd be better if everyone lived forever, then I'd be more inclined to want to. Less inclined if I'm the only one.
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Wed Jul 25, 12 4:37 pmby Aidan
ynnaD wrote:If this technology could be available by then, the question is , would you really wanna live forever?
Think about it
I certainly would.
About population growth... I'm sure we'll start building UP eventually. Also, with these technological advancements, I'm very sure our space exploration will improve.
As for religious outlook, I believe that once we die, nothing happens. We just... die. With this being said, I'd like to live forever.
