is this BS or what?

[Nuk3m]

I admire the optimism but seriously now, read through some of the article... this stuff is such bs.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/14/b...ref=rss_latest

By 2020, Kurzweil predicts a second revolution in the area of nanotechnology. According to his calculations, it is already showing signs of exponential growth as scientists begin test first generation nanobots that can cure Type 1 diabetes in rats or heal spinal cord injuries in mice.

One scientist has developed something called a respirocyte -- a robotic red blood cell that, if injected into the bloodstream, would allow humans to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath or sit at the bottom of a swimming pool for hours at a time.

[Hawk Eye]

I wish these people wouldn't get my hopes up for the science fiction-esque society I dream so often about.

[Dospac]

Kurzweil has been right about many things though. I believe the law central to his beliefs and the predictions based on it to by and large be true.

[Agent Buckshot Moose]

Originally Posted by Nuk3m

I admire the optimism but seriously now, read through some of the article... this stuff is such bs.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/14/b...ref=rss_latest

You'd be surprised how quickly the human race is advancing technologically. I'm fairly sure that in 50-100 years we will be regularly using devices and technologies today thought impossible. That is, assuming we don't kill ourselves in nuclear Armageddon. Nanotechnology is already in use for cancer treatment (experimentally). By injecting some sort of marker material, the treatment can be directed directly at cancer cells.

100 years ago people didn't ever believe there would be something like computers. 50 years ago, it wasn't possible for computers would become small, personal machines. 50 years ago there was no such thing as manned space travel (even though that came only shortly after 195.

I'm sure you get the idea.

[Nuk3m]

yeah i know, but i dont think in the time span that article is saying. in the 1960's japan thought that by 2000 we would be on the mars.

[SkullBash]

We have/had probes around on or in most planets in our system. We even landed one on a comet. A fucking comet! So the only thing stoping us or japan from the moon is money and political will. We've been spending money and probes and the space station.

[Etzell]

Originally Posted by Nuk3m

yeah i know, but i dont think in the time span that article is saying. in the 1960's japan thought that by 2000 we would be on the moon.

Yeah, but did they think we'd do it before the decade was out? Or would they have said that was BS?

[Nuk3m]

i meant to say mars.

in other words, we think technology will evolve faster than it does. although we are in the age of computers, still.

[reaper18]

dude, the age of computers will never pass
Computers will accompany the human race for the rest of our existence, and will help us evolve technologically even faster than we would have without them.

[zSilver_Fox]

Originally Posted by reaper18

dude, the age of computers will never pass
Computers will accompany the human race for the rest of our existence, and will help us evolve technologically even faster than we would have without them.

This man agrees.

[Tsukasa]

Well, some of us are already not completely human. A pacemaker is a computer which keeps you alive. Synthetic arms / legs are controlled via computers reading neural activity. You can already play FF with your mind (Google: OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator).

At what point do you stop classifying human as opposed to machine? If its a 50% thing, then some of us (the more unfortunate ones) are already machines.

[Nuk3m]

not true, its not i guess you could say, part of you. your not part of a synthetic leg, aside from a pace maker, and anything internal.

[SkullBash]

To make a broad statement like that you would have to define what is human. If I had a human head on the body of a monkey would I be human? The monkeys body is not part of me so does a functioning brain classify a human? Say it's a brain in a jar with some cognitive ability but no sense of the outside world... is it human? Just wondering.

[greenday5494]

ugh, i would take organic over machine anyday. even though im a nerd, the warmness of orangic stuff pwns machine


just sayin


plus, women>anything synthetic




*walks away from thread*

[SmellyCat]

Cool, you're heterosexual.

[TheWetMule]

Originally Posted by Tsukasa

At what point do you stop classifying human as opposed to machine? If its a 50% thing, then some of us (the more unfortunate ones) are already machines.

We'll always be human as long as we have a soul! DAMN YOU MACHINES, YOU SPAWN OF SATAN.

Originally Posted by SmellyCat

Cool, you're heterosexual.

He's at that age :F

[greenday5494]

:F


well, organic doesnt mean women ONLY, it can be man or woman.

[zSilver_Fox]

Honestly, you're 13. Those slutty girls in middle school don't count for boobs :P.

[greenday5494]

14*, going into high school. so, yea, freshman=high school, that means, hot seniors.

[Etzell]

That are way out of your league and will never talk to you. Better you learn it now than when you try something and make an ass of yourself.