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2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
#13975669 - 02/16/11 08:14 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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I read an article in Time Magazine today about the progress of humans and technology and in it they talk about an idea called 'The Singularity'; where humans will know the recipe for immortality and it will come from the end of the Human Era, where machines and humans merge.
It also talks about an experiment they did with age degenerated Lab Mice and administered an enzyme called 'Telomerase' to stop the aging process; it worked & the mice actually got younger too.
I still haven't decided what I think about everything I took in, so I'm gonna post it here to maybe spark up some conversation about it.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: Sprezzatura]
#13975687 - 02/16/11 08:17 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Cant wait.
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: The_Ghost]
#13975692 - 02/16/11 08:18 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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offspring with robots?
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: The_Ghost]
#13975693 - 02/16/11 08:18 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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hahahaha yessssssss I'm so down
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Sprezzatura
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: rackem]
#13975702 - 02/16/11 08:20 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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haha, more like scanning a copy of your brain into a computer.
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: Sprezzatura]
#13975711 - 02/16/11 08:21 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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schematics at that point i suppose
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Sprezzatura
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: rackem]
#13975721 - 02/16/11 08:23 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Read the Article man, it's actually terrifying to think of the progress we're inevitably going to make.
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: rackem]
#13975732 - 02/16/11 08:24 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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We'll all be old men by that point lol. I'd prefer to stay at 25 years old or something not almost 60.
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: Eminence]
#13975735 - 02/16/11 08:25 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Inteeresting article
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This shit is really interesting, hopefully things don't pull a Terminator on us though.
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: Eminence]
#13975746 - 02/16/11 08:27 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Yeah, I wouldn't mind staying 27 for a while... From what I read, they'll have the technology to reverse your age to whatever you want though... one day you'll see 250 year old guys walking around looking 25.
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: Sprezzatura]
#13975769 - 02/16/11 08:31 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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I took the liberty of posting a youtube clip of Raymond Kurzweil on 'I've got a Secret'.
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: Sprezzatura]
#13975776 - 02/16/11 08:32 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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mind boggling.
but the true most inovvative advances that will be made we probably arent even talking about, kinda how "flying cars" or "jetpacks" were the talk of the future for people in the 50's and 60's or whatever, but computers ended up being the thing to change the world.
its awesome to speculate though. And nano technology is making merging with machines inevitable.
I think it will really make the rich more rich and powerful and idk what it will do to us 
long as dr0ogz get legalized soon im chillin, open up a pot shop. Grow old (or young ) and talk to bunch of people.. idk
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: Sprezzatura]
#13975779 - 02/16/11 08:33 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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not gonna lie i scanned it but it sounds alot like the prophecies of doom guy who is all about the robots... something is going to give eventually
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: rackem]
#13975867 - 02/16/11 08:50 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Do we have immortal cars, computers, or washing machines? No. Man will never be "immortal."
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: rackem]
#13975894 - 02/16/11 08:54 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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2045.
2012 is next year bud.
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: pfxtc]
#13975921 - 02/16/11 08:59 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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Lol I hope you're kidding
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: pfxtc]
#13975933 - 02/16/11 09:02 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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I don't think we will ever become immortal no matter how much we know! That certainly doesn't mean this technology won't work... I know that we could eventually learn how to prolong life, even double our lifespan! But organs fail for reasons other than aging. So unless you wanna keep getting organ transplants, no one will live forever IMO!
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Re: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal [Re: danlennon3]
#13975959 - 02/16/11 09:06 PM (13 years, 17 days ago) |
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why would anyone want to?
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What the fuck is immortality anyway?
Give me a real definition please. Hard to base something on a beginning and an end when both things in themselves are illusions created by us in the first place.
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