You just gained a follower, I am a huge fan of Transhumanism. A few things scare me about the subject, but I hope to live to see things such as immortality or at least life extension, because I would love to continue my current quality of life at least well into my 80's.
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A bit of it is scary, yeah.
If it involves some kind of superintelligent AI, we have no idea how something magnitudes smarter than we are would even act. But if we start by creating an AI that's essentially just a human without a body and work to make that one smarter, he/she might be very excited and grateful.
As cool as it would be to live forever, it would also be good if we could self-terminate whenever. Though as technology advances and the world changes at an ever faster rate, I don't see why you would.
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I believe in an afterlife, but also kinda believe in the old stories about humans living hundred of years and being very, very tall... something that's already in us has the potential to do that. If only we were in touch with those long abandoned parts of our brains, we could direct our own evolution like our very ancient ancestors did... just my supposition lol :)
Stephen King touched on these subjects a tad: magic of organic beings/environment, versus super science... kinda like the old tag-line for Thundarr the Barbarian, ".. a world of savagery, sorcery and super science."
It's all cybogre now.
It's never cybogre
This reminds me of the movie Ghost in the Shell. The conversations were deep in that particular animation...but yeah, I'm all for progression, no matter how scary it may seem. I mean, if we can utilize a single neutron to split atoms and cause a nuclear chain reaction, clone sheep, and various other mind-blowing acts, this is just the inevitable. This era is definitely the best era to grow up in considering the exponential growth of technology.
"The benefits of...radical lifespan enhancement are obvious—but it could also be harnessed to increase the severity of punishments ...[Uploading] the mind of a convicted criminal and running it a million times faster than normal would enable the uploaded criminal to serve a 1,000 year sentence in eight-and-a-half hours.."
"the use of advanced technologies, particularly consciousness uploading and virtual reality, to create a heaven on Earth. But if you can create heaven, you can create hell. It's a prospect that's particularly chilling when you consider lifespans of indefinite length, along with the nearly boundless possibilities for psychological and physical anguish."
Source link: http://io9.com/10-horrifying-technologies-that-should-never-be-allowed-1635238363/all
I'd like to chime in on this topic. We are ruled over by evil elite powerful families that consider us cattle. If one thinks that any benefits of this technology would be shared with the slave class then it is my opinion that they are gravely mistaken. This tech is strictly for the rich and powerful to benefit from, not us. We are merely cattle.. Farmers don't bring their cattle indoors to watch blurays and play xbox.
One last thing: they want our planet's population under 500 million. There are over 8 billion people on this planet. I doubt they want our life spans extended since they already want most of us dead.
"Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature." - Georgia Guidestones
Like I always said, immortality or bust. The population would need to be much lower, but we don't need to kill anybody, just limit birth. Something we should already be doing if you ask me. If you could handle private wealth's ludicrous scale of twenty percent of people owning eighty-five percent of private wealth, and then handle having less people to distribute resources to, there might not actually be so many people that most live in misery. Never got too into tech stuff, but I'd take any shot I could at immortality I guess.
VicariousE
Manipulation of the human race started, about the same time your female protagonist was around (and even before that, I'm sure) - women favoring taller fathers, resulting in taller kids. It's continuing today at an RNA/hormonal level... whether it's planned or accidental... ex: parents who smoke, have children less resilient to smoking's effects.
Very glad you're still continuing your epic, old man!
vezanmatics
While that's true, I think we'll be seeing some incredibly radical and rapid changes to the human condition in the coming decades. Slowly evolving over generations is one thing, but evolving at the relatively blinding pace of technological advancement is another.
You know how making a learning AI smarter than any human would be a HUGE deal? Imagine if there was some kind of interface that could merge it with your brain so the two of you could think as one. There's also some crazy stuff going on in the radical life extension field... we could be the first generation that has the option to live forever, dude.
Crazy stuff.