2045.com (I cannot yet post links, sorry.)
Just wanted to ask what people made of this?
Just wanted to ask what people made of this?
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"Could your brain be programmed to work better?" it asks.
To quote the biologist Steve Jones, "We know almost nothing about the brain, and what we do know is probably wrong."
The rest is similarly futuristic gobbledygook.
On another, computer related, site I frequent, there is somebody who never tires of predicting that the "Turing Test will be passed in the next twelve months." So twelve months go by, and still the great event is just twelve months away.
What will computers look like in 2045? Well, at a guess, they will have 64 terrabytes of RAM, 256 core processors and 16 petabyte solid state drives. The architecture will still be x86, it will still be running word processors, spreadsheets and databases, and the "singularity" will be confidently predicted for arrival before the end of the century.
To quote the biologist Steve Jones, "We know almost nothing about the brain, and what we do know is probably wrong."
The rest is similarly futuristic gobbledygook.
On another, computer related, site I frequent, there is somebody who never tires of predicting that the "Turing Test will be passed in the next twelve months." So twelve months go by, and still the great event is just twelve months away.
What will computers look like in 2045? Well, at a guess, they will have 64 terrabytes of RAM, 256 core processors and 16 petabyte solid state drives. The architecture will still be x86, it will still be running word processors, spreadsheets and databases, and the "singularity" will be confidently predicted for arrival before the end of the century.
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The site looks like a nice collection of recent advances -- sort of a Popular Science spread with conferences. There are incredible advances happening in research that we seldom hear about: right now the home page brings out how nano-folding increases capabilities in solar, printing, and robotics.
I'm guessing you're concerned about the topics there like Cybernetic immortality.
2020-2025
Autonomous life-support system for the human brain linked to a robot, ‘avatar’, will save people whose body is completely worn out or irreversibly damaged.
2030-2035
AI...
2045
Substance-independent minds will receive new bodies with capacities far exceeding those of ordinary humans.
These are funded scientists discussing the concepts, not conspiracy theorists, so it brings more queasiness over the proposals.
I have heard people talk about the Revelation "Mark" being a genetic transformation that removes our humanity and takes us out from under God's redemptive plan. Wanting to be greater on this earth, but losing control over our eternity and soul.
Honestly, I don't see many happy people on this earth, and can't imagine why they would want to extend their life spans. To be in poverty and war longer? To have more heartbreaks of lost and injured loved ones? To have their homes destroyed and identities stolen more completely? And then add the arrogant super-people who lord it over the others.
I'm guessing you're concerned about the topics there like Cybernetic immortality.
2020-2025
Autonomous life-support system for the human brain linked to a robot, ‘avatar’, will save people whose body is completely worn out or irreversibly damaged.
2030-2035
AI...
2045
Substance-independent minds will receive new bodies with capacities far exceeding those of ordinary humans.
These are funded scientists discussing the concepts, not conspiracy theorists, so it brings more queasiness over the proposals.
I have heard people talk about the Revelation "Mark" being a genetic transformation that removes our humanity and takes us out from under God's redemptive plan. Wanting to be greater on this earth, but losing control over our eternity and soul.
Honestly, I don't see many happy people on this earth, and can't imagine why they would want to extend their life spans. To be in poverty and war longer? To have more heartbreaks of lost and injured loved ones? To have their homes destroyed and identities stolen more completely? And then add the arrogant super-people who lord it over the others.
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You think scientists are incapable of letting their imaginations run away with them? The history of predictions made over the last 50 years or so says otherwise.
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Not sure how you formed that conclusion, or why you're trying to discredit my comments.
The OP asks for what people think, so stick to the OP -- not picking on other posts.
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The Turning Test was recently passed.
I don't think computers will use silicon by that point. We are already looking at protein and quantum computing.
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Yes, I have considered this myself. But, do you not think that such massive technological change could bring massive sociological change? Perhaps this could work to eliminate poverty and war?
Do you believe God would stop us from doing this (since death seems to be a key part), or this may be part of his plan? Or that he will leave us to our own devices?
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