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Scientist Says Immortality Only 20 Years Away!!!

 
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Scientist Says Immortality Only 20 Years Away by @shontelaylay [link to read.bi]
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Ray Kurzweil, a scientist and author of The Singularity is Near, thinks the world as we know it will be unrecognizable in 20 years.

One of the changes he thinks could happen: Scientists may finally crack immortality.

"I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies' stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, aging," he writes in The Sun. "Then nanotechnology will let us live for ever. Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively."

Kurzweil makes a number of other substantial claims, such as humans being able to replace all failing organs with artificial ones. He says we'll be able to scuba dive for hours without oxygen, and write entire books within minutes thanks to advanced nanotechnology.

Oh, virtual sex will be commonplace in the not-so-distant future.

Kurzweil's absurd-sounding proclamations stem from the fact that technological progress is growing at an exponential rate.

"Computer technology and our understanding of genes — our body’s software programs — are accelerating at an incredible rate," he writes. His theory of the Law of Accelerating Returns, suggests there will be another "billion-fold" increase in technology over the next quarter century.

"In reality, the time needed for technology to double is constantly decreasing," Inc's Kevin Bailey explains. "The next thing to realize with an exponential curve, is that at a certain point progress relative to time skyrockets up. The increase in technology that once took 20 years now takes 10, and then 5, and then 2.5, and then 1.25, and then .75 years, and then on and on. Kurzweil claims that we are right at the beginning of the sharp upturn that's characteristic of exponential curves."

Kurzweil thinks we're just beginning to tap into the possibilities artificial intelligence can bring, and the advancements will only get more wild. We're already using it in small ways to help us land airplanes and conduct searches on Google.

"These technologies should not seem at all fanciful," says Kurzweil. "Our phones now perform tasks we wouldn’t have dreamed possible 20 years ago. When I was a student in 1965, my university’s only computer cost £7million and was huge."

Kurzweil concludes, "We can look forward to a world where humans become cyborgs, with artificial limbs and organs."


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Should I wait?

I was thinking about suicide much sooner than 2032...

Should I give it a try?
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Typical jewish nonsense.
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Why would the elite want to give "immortality" to the useless eaters?

I thought they want to reduce world population.
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Woohoo, I would only be 46!

I can handle being in my mid-40s for the rest of eternity!
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Should I wait?

I was thinking about suicide much sooner than 2032...

Should I give it a try?
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wtf
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Gen Y wins again.
GLP = Whirlwind of stupid.
:IslamLol:
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Should I wait?

I was thinking about suicide much sooner than 2032...

Should I give it a try?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19889589


wtf
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I have planned to commit suicide around the year 2017 or 2018.

Should I wait until 2032 to experience immortality?
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Scientist Says Immortality Only 20 Years Away by @shontelaylay [link to read.bi]
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I believe it!
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Yea, and Branston is building a death star......No really



SpaceX and Richard Branson Virgin Gallactic Could Realistically Build a Death Star

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Baloney
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But of course it wont available for everyone ? goes to the Highest bidder and important people who contribute to humanity ... and then I guess there will be a baby limit also ??
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fuck ray kurzweil
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Gen Y wins again.
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Lol. You are a fat hooker.
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So this is the HEAVEN the bible spoke of!

Praise and worship a diety for all eternity, own a Mansion and Live forever!

Who knew?
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But of course it wont available for everyone ? goes to the Highest bidder and important people who contribute to humanity ... and then I guess there will be a baby limit also ??
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The bible says it will only be available to those who don't take "the mark of the beast"
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Should I wait?

I was thinking about suicide much sooner than 2032...

Should I give it a try?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19889589


wtf
 Quoting: Luisport



I have planned to commit suicide around the year 2017 or 2018.

Should I wait until 2032 to experience immortality?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19889589


what makes you think this technology would even be available to a lowly GLPer like you....or me?
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Woohoo, I would only be 46!

I can handle being in my mid-40s for the rest of eternity!
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Ugg, who wants to live for eternity.

By the time you have been kicking around here for a hundred years, you are kinda sick of the place and ready to move on.
"The wise man's home is the universe." ~ Democrites

Catch the blue train...somewhere down that crazy river.
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Scientist Says Immortality Only 20 Years Away by @shontelaylay [link to read.bi]
 Quoting: Luisport


Sadly friend.even this/our observable universe is not truly infinite

..it like us (no matter what we deluded ourselves with) will come to the end of certain epochs... and all organic life forms within it ...will eventually die (and return to dark matter) before a new big bang restarts the clock to another expansion of light epoch.

Therefore the only truly infinite and constant thing is bipolar energy.
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Great Immortality...

First they have to kill off 80 or 90 percent of the population.

That process is underway now.

Then implement immortality...

Trouble is, immortality doesn't work when the Sun flares up and cooks the planet, or when a comet / asteroid slams in?
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Great Immortality...

First they have to kill off 80 or 90 percent of the population.

That process is underway now.

Then implement immortality...

Trouble is, immortality doesn't work when the Sun flares up and cooks the planet, or when a comet / asteroid slams in?
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hiding
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